Tarsomys orientalis

Rickart, Rowsey, Ibañez, Quidlat, Balete, & Heaney, 2024

Kampalili Moss 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 : Tarsomys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Rickart, E.A., Rowsey, D.M., Ibañez, J.C., Quidlat, R.S., Balete, D.S. and Heaney, L.R. 2024-05-25. A new species of the endemic Tarsomys clade (Muridae, Rodentia) from eastern Mindanao Island, Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy (in press).

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae051

Original name as described

Tarsomys orientalis

Other common names

Kampalili Tarsomys

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:194803

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"2 km S, 2 km W Kampalili peak, Maragusan Municipality, Compostela Valley Province [now Davao de Oro Province], Philippines, 1,900 m elevation, 7.2866°N, 126.2753°E".

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Philippines

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Rickart, E.A., Rowsey, D.M., Ibañez, J.C., Quidlat, R.S., Balete, D.S. and Heaney, L.R. 2024-05-25. A new species of the endemic Tarsomys clade (Muridae, Rodentia) from eastern Mindanao Island, Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy (in press).

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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