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--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Tarsomys
SPECIES Tarsomys apoensis
Author: | Mearns, 1905. | Citation: | Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 28: 453. | Common Name: | Dusky Tarsomys | Type Locality: | Philippines, S Mindanao Isl, Davao City Province, Mt Apo, 6750 ft (2058 m). | Distribution: | Greater Mindanao Faunal Region. Endemic to the mountains on Mindanao from 1550 to 2400 m in tropical lower and upper montane rainforest (Heaney et al, 1998; Musser and Heaney, 1992). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | This dark-furred, short-tailed mountain rat may be the ecological equivalent of the Sulawesian Bunomys chrysocomus, which it superficially resembles in some morphological traits (Musser and Heaney, 1992). Standard karyotype (2n = 42, FN = 61/62) identical to that of Limnomys in autosomes and X chromosome but differs by its larger telocentric Y chromosome (Rickart and Heaney, 2002). |
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