Mount Isarog hairy-tailed rat

The Mount Isarog hairy-tailed rat (Batomys uragon) is a species of cloud rat found only in the Philippines, on the island of Luzon. The first specimen was collected on Mount Isarog in the south of the island in 1988, and the full description was published in 2015 by Danilo Balete, Eric Rickart, Lawrence Heaney and Sharon Jansa, based on DNA analysis and measurements. It differs from its closest relative, the Luzon hairy-tailed rat, in its cytochrome b sequence, moderate body size, colour pattern and skull. Adults are pale golden-brown, with males about 19.8 centimetres long and about 178 grams. It lives in old-growth montane and mossy forest between roughly 1,350 and 1,800 metres, eats nuts and seeds, is nocturnal and climbs well.