Crateromys
Appearance
Crateromys Temporal range:
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Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys schadenbergi) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Tribe: | Phloeomyini |
Genus: | Crateromys Thomas, 1895 |
Type species | |
Phloeomys schadenbergi | |
Species | |
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Crateromys is a genus of rodent, native to the Philippines, in the family Muridae.[1] It contains four species extant species, and one extinct species.
- Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys australis)
- Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys schadenbergi)
- Panay cloudrunner (Crateromys heaneyi)
- Ilin Island cloudrunner (Crateromys paulus)
- †Crateromys ballik[2]