Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat

Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Crateromys
Species:	C. australis
Binomial name
Crateromys australis Musser, Heaney & Rabor, 1985

The Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat, Dinagat crateromys or Dinagat cloud rat (Crateromys australis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only on Dinagat Island in the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. The main threat is habitat loss caused by deforestation and chromite mining. It was long known only by the holotype collected by Dioscoro S. Rabor in 1975 until it was rediscovered and filmed by Czech zoologist Milada Řeháková and her husband in January 2012.^[1]

References

Literature

• Heaney, L. 1996. Crateromys australis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 July 2007.
• Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.