Velvet Climbing Mouse

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Velvet Climbing Mouse
Fossil range: Recent
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Nesomyidae
Subfamily: Dendromurinae
Genus: Dendroprionomys
F. Petter, 1966
Species: D. rousseloti
Binomial name
Dendroprionomys rousseloti
F. Petter, 1966

The Velvet Climbing Mouse (Dendroprionomys rousseloti) is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It is found only in Republic of the Congo.

[edit] References

  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
  • Schlitter, D. 2004. Dendroprionomys rousseloti. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
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