Western shrew mouse

The western shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys occidentalis) is a small rodent of the family Muridae, the large family of true mice and rats, placed in the genus Pseudohydromys, the shrew mice. It is known from the island of New Guinea, where it is found in West Papua, Indonesia, and in Papua New Guinea. The species was described by Tate in 1951, according to the taxonomic record held by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, which accepts the name and places it in the order Rodentia and class Mammalia. The same record lists it with the IUCN Red List category Data Deficient, meaning that too little is known about it to judge how threatened it is. The English Wikipedia article is a stub that rests on the Mammal Species of the World entry by Musser and Carleton (2005), so little beyond its identity and distribution is yet documented in the sources consulted.