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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Crateromys
SPECIES Crateromys schadenbergi
| Author: | Meyer, 1895. | | Citation: | Abh. Mus. Dresden, 6: 1. | | Common Name: | Luzon Crateromys | | Type Locality: | Philippines, N Luzon Isl, Mountain Province, Mt Data. | | Distribution: | Greater Luzon Faunal Region in the Philippines. Endemic to the mountains of N Luzon (Heaney et al., 1998; Oliver et al., 1993; Sanborn, 1952a). | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | The largest-bodied of all the species of Crateromys and an arboreal inhabitant of oak-pine forest where it builds stick-nests in tree crowns for shelter (Oliver et al., 1993; Heaney et al., 1998). In many ways, C. schadenbergi is an ecological and morphological equivalent of large-bodied tropical tree squirrels (Sciuridae), which do not occur in the Greater Luzon Faunal Region. |
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