Southern small-toothed moss-mouse
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| Southern small-toothed moss-mouse | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Mount Bosavi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Pseudohydromys |
| Species: | P. pumehanae |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudohydromys pumehanae | |
The Southern small-toothed moss-mouse (Pseudohydromys pumehanae) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found on the slopes of Mount Bosavi, Papua New Guinea.
References
- Helgen, Kristofer M.; Lauren E. Helgen (2009). "Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Moss-Mice of New Guinea: A Taxonomic Revision of Pseudohydromys (Muridae: Murinae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 331: 230–313. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
this rodents poisonous saliva is known to burn the skin of its preditors and heal its own wounds. The small-toothed moss-mouse is also known to be jet black or ruby red the moss-mouse lures in its own prey with its attractive bodess and eat the fleshy insides of the beetle-ton beetle.
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