Baer's wood mouse

Baer's wood mouse, also called Baer's hylomyscus, is a small rodent whose scientific name is Hylomyscus baeri. It belongs to the family Muridae, the large rodent family that includes the true mice and rats. The species is recorded from three countries of West Africa, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Sierra Leone, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. The source names habitat loss as a threat to it, which ties the species closely to how much of that lowland forest is left standing. Despite the shared common name, it is a different species from the wood mouse listed elsewhere in this atlas.