Fea's tree rat

Fea's tree rat, Chiromyscus chiropus, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae, the large family that holds the Old World rats and mice. It is also known as the Indochinese chiromyscus. The species was first described by Oldfield Thomas in 1891 and now sits in the genus Chiromyscus, a genus authority credited to Thomas in 1925. Its range covers Yunnan in China, eastern Myanmar, northern Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, a belt of continental Southeast Asia and southern China. The International Union for Conservation of Nature assesses it as Least Concern under version 3.1 of its Red List system. The source article is a short stub, so this entry records only the classification, alternative name, range and conservation assessment that it states.