Luzon giant forest mouse

The Luzon giant forest mouse (Apomys magnus) is a forest mouse endemic to Luzon in the Philippines. The Mammal Diversity Database, which lists it under the name Large Forest Mouse, places it in the family Muridae, subfamily Murinae, tribe Hydromyini and genus Apomys, in the subgenus Megapomys, and gives Large Apomys and Large Banahaw forest mouse as further common names. It is a recently described species: it was named in 2011 by Heaney and colleagues in a paper in Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences that described seven new species and a new subgenus of forest mice from Luzon Island. The holotype was collected on Mt. Banahaw, at Hasaan in Barangay Lalo, Tayabas, Quezon Province, at an elevation of 1,250 metres. The species lives in the Indomalaya realm and the IUCN Red List rates it Least Concern.