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Crunomys fallax Thomas 1897

Description

Crunomys fallax Thomas 1897

Crunomys fallax Thomas 1897, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 14: 394.

Type Locality: Philippines, NC Luzon Isl, Isabella Province, Sierra Madre Range, 1000 ft (305 m).

Vernacular Names: Luzon Shrew Mouse.

Distribution: Greater Luzon Faunal Region. Known only from the type locality.

Conservation: IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: Recorded only by the holotype. Morphologically more similar to the Philippine C. melanius and C. suncoides than to the Sulawesian C. celebensis (Musser, 1982 c; Rickart et al., 1998). Two specimens reported as C. fallax by Danielsen et al. (1994) and Mallari and Jensen (1993) that were trapped in mossy forest in the Sierra Madre Range are actually Archboldomys musseri (Rickart et al., 1998:22).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 1189-1531 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1313, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Thomas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Muridae
Genus
Crunomys
Species
fallax
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Crunomys fallax Thomas, 1897 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Musser, G. G. 1982 c. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 110. Crunomys and the small-bodied shrew rats native to the Philippine Islands and Sulawesi (Celebes). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 174: 1 - 95.
  • Rickart, E. A., L. R. Heaney, B. R. Tabaranza, Jr., and D. S. Balete. 1998. A review of the genera Crunomys and Archboldomys (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae), with descriptions of two new species from the Philippines. Fieldianna: Zoology, n. s., 89: 1 - 24.
  • Danielsen, F., D. S. Balete, T. D. Christensen, M. Heegaard, O. F. Jakobsen, A. Jensen, T. Lund, and M. K. Poulsen. 1994. Conservation of biological diversity in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Isabela and southern Cagayan Province, the Philippines. BirdLife International, Manila and Copenhagen, 146 pp.
  • Mallari, N. A. D., and A. Jensen. 1993. Biological diversity in northern Sierra Madre, Philippines: Its implication for conservation and management. Asia Life Sciences, 2: 101 - 112.