Hamiguitan hairy-tailed rat

Hamiguitan hairy-tailed rat
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Batomys
Species:	B. hamiguitan
Binomial name
Batomys hamiguitan Balete, Heaney, Rickart, Quidlat, & Ibanez, 2008

The Hamiguitan hairy-tailed rat (Batomys hamiguitan) is one of five species of rodent in the genus Batomys. It is in the diverse family Muridae. This species is found only in the Philippines. is a yellow-brown animal with a long furry tail, weighs about 175 grams, and is related to several other species known in Central Mindanao, Dinagat Island and Luzon. It lives only in an area that's at least 950 meters high, and in dwarf mossy forests less than 10 square kilometers.

It was the last member of its genus to be discovered in May 2006.^[2] According to team leader and lead author Danilo Balete, "Hamiguitan batomys is the first mammal to be described from Eastern Mindanao, and the first thought to live only in that area."

This species corroborates the hypothesis that the island of Mindanao has multiple centers of endemism, of which the southeastern highland of Mount Hamiguitan is one.

Oenomys
Division

Grammomys	Arid thicket rat (G. aridulus) G. brevirostris Bunting's thicket rat (G. buntingi) Gray-headed thicket rat (G. caniceps) Mozambique thicket rat (G. cometes) Woodland thicket rat (G. dolichurus) Forest thicket rat (G. dryas) Giant thicket rat (G. gigas) Ruwenzori thicket rat (G. ibeanus) Eastern rainforest thicket rat (G. kuru) Macmillan's thicket rat (G. macmillani) Ethiopian thicket rat (G. minnae) Shining thicket rat (G. poensis) Selous thicket rat (G. selousi)
Lamottemys	Mount Oku rat (L. okuensis)
Oenomys (Rufous-nosed rats)	Common rufous-nosed rat (O. hypoxanthus) Ghana rufous-nosed rat (O. ornatus)
Thallomys (Acacia rats)	Loring's rat (T. loringi) Black-tailed tree rat (T. nigricauda) Acacia rat (T. paedulcus) Shortridge's rat (T. shortridgei)
Thamnomys (Thicket rats)	Kemp's thicket rat (T. kempi) Hatt's thicket rat (T. major) Charming thicket rat (T. venustus)

Phloeomys
Division

Batomys (Luzon and Mindanao forest rats)	Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat (B. dentatus) Luzon hairy-tailed rat (B. granti) Hamiguitan hairy-tailed rat (B. hamiguitan) Dinagat hairy-tailed rat (B. russatus) Mindanao hairy-tailed rat (B. salomonseni) Mount Isarog hairy-tailed rat (B. uragon)
Carpomys (Luzon rats)	Short-footed Luzon tree rat (C. melanurus) White-bellied Luzon tree rat (C. phaeurus)
Crateromys (Cloudrunners)	Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat (C. australis) Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat (C. schadenbergi) Panay cloudrunner (C. heaneyi) Ilin Island cloudrunner (C. paulus)
Phloeomys (Slender-tailed cloud rats)	Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat (P. cumingi) Northern Luzon giant cloud rat (P. pallidus)

Pithecheir
Division

Eropeplus	Sulawesi soft-furred rat (E. canus)
Lenomys	Trefoil-toothed giant rat (L. meyeri)
Lenothrix	Gray tree rat (L. canus)
Margaretamys (Margareta's rats)	Beccari's margareta rat (M. beccarii) Christine's margareta rat (M. christinae) Elegant margareta rat (M. elegans) Little margareta rat (M. parvus)
Pithecheir (Monkey-footed rats)	Red tree rat (P. melanurus) Malayan tree rat (P. parvus)
Pithecheirops	Bornean pithecheirops (P. otion)