The Southern Cordillera shrew mouse, Soricomys montanus, is a small shrew mouse of the family Muridae that the Mammal Diversity Database also lists as the mountain shrew mouse. It lives on Luzon in the Philippines. D. S. Balete and colleagues described it in 2012 in a paper that placed three new Luzon shrew mice in the new genus Soricomys, and the type specimen came from east of South Peak on Mount Data in Mountain Province. It has a slender, sturdy snout and small eyes, dark reddish brown fur on the back, a head and body length of about 93 to 103 millimetres and a tail of about 85 to 98 millimetres, and it is diurnal and terrestrial. It occurs in primary and secondary montane forest and in mossy forest from about 1950 to 2690 metres in the southern part of the Cordillera Central. The Red List status is Least Concern.
Facts
Conservation Status Activity Pattern Classification
Living or Extinct Connections
Child Taxon Of
Muridae, Taxa Source Soricomys montanus (Mammal Diversity Database)
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Source Soricomys montanus (Mammal Diversity Database)Type localityQuote, Type locality
east of South Peak Mt. Data, Mountain province, Luzon Island, Philippines.
Sources
1. Soricomys montanus (Mammal Diversity Database)
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
Species status
Living
Type locality
east of South Peak Mt. Data, Mountain province, Luzon Island, Philippines.
In Group: Rodents And Lagomorphs, Taxonomy, order
Order: Rodentia
Child Taxon Of: Muridae, Taxonomy, family
Family: Muridae
View the Source2. Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Soricomys montanus descriptions (GBIF)
Global Biodiversity Information FacilityActivity patternsQuote, Activity patterns
Mountain Shrew Mice are diurnal and terrestrial.
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