Gray-bellied mountain rat
Species of rodent
| Gray-bellied mountain rat | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Limnomys |
| Species: | L. bryophilus |
| Binomial name | |
| Limnomys bryophilus Rickart, Heaney & Tabaranza Jr., 2003 | |
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The gray-bellied mountain rat, also known as the gray-bellied limnomys and the buffy-collared moss-mouse (Limnomys bryophilus), is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
It is found only in the Philippines, where it is common at high elevations of the Kitanglad Mountain Range in the province of Bukidnon on the island of Mindanao. Its habitat is the moss-rich montane cloud forest from about 2,250 metres up to about 2,800 metres.[1]
The rats, which are nocturnal, feed on the ground on arthropods, earthworms, fruit, and seeds. Although equipped with three pairs of mammae, females have been observed to give birth about once a year to only a small number of young, commonly as few as one or two.[2]
The gray-bellied mountain rat is one of only two species in the genus Limnomys. The other, and the rat's only close relation, is the Mindanao mountain rat, Limnomys sibuanus. While gray-bellies have been recorded only in the Kitanglad Mountains, the Mindanao is considered to be endemic to the mountains of the island of Mindanao and has been recorded from Mount Apo and Mount Malindang as well as from Mount Kitanglad. It has also been observed at lower elevations, its range being between about 2,000 metres and about 2,800 metres.[3]
The alternative name of "buffy-collared moss-mouse"[4] reflects the rat's small size.
References
- ^ a b Heaney, L.; Tabaranza, B. (2017). "Limnomys bryophilus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T136286A22429244. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T136286A22429244.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Limnomys bryophilus at fieldmuseum.org, accessed 14 February 2012
- ^ Heaney, L.; Tabaranza, B. (2016). "Limnomys sibuanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T11980A22429309. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T11980A22429309.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Species Sheet Buffy-collared moss-mouse at planet-mammiferes.org. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
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Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Rattus)
- Luzon broad-toothed rat (A. latidens)
(Bandicoot rats)
- Lesser bandicoot rat (B. bengalensis)
- Greater bandicoot rat (B. indica)
- Savile's bandicoot rat (B. savilei)
(White-toothed rats)
- Small white-toothed rat (B. berdmorei)
- Bower's white-toothed rat (B. bowersi)
- Kenneth's white-toothed rat (B. mackenziei)
- Manipur white-toothed rat (B. manipulus)
- Bagobo rat (B. bagobus)
- Camiguin forest rat (B. gamay)
- Lagre Luzon forest rat (B. luzonicus)
- Andrew's hill rat (B. andrewsi)
- Yellow-haired hill rat (B. chrysocomus)
- Heavenly hill rat (B. coelestis)
- Fraternal hill rat (B. fratrorum)
- Karoko hill rat (B. karokophilus)
- Inland hill rat (B. penitus)
- Long-headed hill rat (B. prolatus)
- Tana Toraja hill rat (B. torajae)
- Ryukyu long-tailed giant rat (D. legatus)
- Sody's tree rat (K. sodyi)
- Komodo rat (K. rintjanus)
- Gray-bellied mountain rat (L. bryophilus)
- Mindanao mountain rat (L. sibuanus)
- Bunn's short-tailed bandicoot rat (N. bunnii)
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat (N. indica)
- Ceram rat (N. ceramicus)
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat (P. furvus)
- Flores giant rat (P. armandvillei)
- Sulawesi giant rat (P. dominator)
- Flores long-nosed rat (P. naso)
(Typical rats)
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(Giant Sunda rats)
- Annandale's rat (S. annandalei)
- Mountain giant Sunda rat (S. infraluteus)
- Bartels's rat (S. maxi)
- Müller's giant Sunda rat (S. muelleri)
- Salokko rat (T. arcuatus)
- Lovely-haired rat (T. callitrichus)
- Celebes rat (T. celebensis)
- Sulawesi montane rat (T. hamatus)
- Small-eared rat (T. microbullatus)
- Sulawesi forest rat (T. punicans)
- Tondano rat (T. taerae)
- Long-footed rat (T. apoensis)
- Spiny long-footed rat (T. echinatus)
- Luzon short-nosed rat (T. adustus)
- See also
- Aethomys–Chrotomys
- Colomys–Golunda
- Hadromys–Maxomys
- Melasmothrix–Mus
- Oenomys–Pithecheir
- Pogonomys–Pseudomys
- Stenocephalomys–Xeromys
- Otomys
- Others
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