Chapa pygmy dormouse | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Suborder: | Myomorpha |
Superfamily: | Muroidea |
Family: | Platacanthomyidae |
Genus: | Typhlomys |
Species: | Typhlomys cinereus |
Subspecies: | T. c. chapensis |
Trinomial name | |
Typhlomys cinereus chapensis (Osgood, 1932) |
The Chapa pygmy dormouse or Vietnamese pygmy dormouse (Typhlomys cinereus chapensis) is a rodent endemic to Vietnam. It is listed as a critically endangered species. It is often considered a separate species, but is now recognized as a subspecies of the Chinese Pygmy Dormouse (T. cinereus).