HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Chiropodomys
SPECIES Chiropodomys karlkoopmani
Author: | Musser, 1979. | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 162(6): 389. | Common Name: | Koopman’s Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse | Type Locality: | Indonesia, Kepulauan Mentawai, Pulau Pagai Utara. | Distribution: | Known only from Pagai (Musser, 1979), and Siberut (Jenkins and Hill, 1982) in the Mentawai Isls. | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | Comments: | The largest in body size of any described Chiropodomys, and possibly most closely related to C. major. Part of the rodent fauna endemic to the Mentawai Arch. (see account of Leopoldomys siporanus). |
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