Baletemys kampalili

Rowsey, M. R. M. Duya, Ibañez, Jansa, Rickart, & Heaney, 2022

Kampalili Shrew Mouse

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Murinae
Tribe : Rattini
Genus : Baletemys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Rowsey, D.M., Duya, M.R.M., Ibañez, J.C., Jansa, S.A., Rickart, E.A. and Heaney, L.R. 2022-12-31. A new genus and species of shrew-like mouse (Rodentia: Muridae) from a new center of endemism in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy 103(6):1259-1277.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyac057

Original name as described

Baletemys kampalili

Other common names

Kampalili Whrew-mouse · Kampalili Baletemys

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:208788

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Primary lower montane forest, 1.75 km south and 4.25 km east of Mt. Kampalili peak, elevation 1,640 m (7.29522°N, 126.31602°E), in Davao Oriental Province, Municipality of Manay, Barangay Taocanga, Sitio Limentuog, Mindanao Island."

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Philippines

Taxonomy notes

recently described in the newly described genus Baletemys

Taxonomy notes citation

Rowsey, D. M., Duya, M. R. M., Ibañez, J. C., Jansa, S. A., Rickart, E. A., & Heaney, L. R. (2022). A new genus and species of shrew-like mouse (Rodentia: Muridae) from a new center of endemism in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy, gyac057.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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