The Palawan soft-furred mountain rat, Palawanomys furvus, is a rodent in the family Muridae, the large family of true mice and rats. It is the only species in the genus Palawanomys, which makes the genus monotypic. The species is found only on Palawan in the Philippines, and it has been recorded on Mount Mantalingajan, so it is restricted to that single island. It was described by Musser and Newcomb in 1983, in a study of Malayan murids and the giant rat of Sumatra. The English Wikipedia article on it is a short stub, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature assessment that the article cites, made in 2008, rates the species Least Concern.
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