The Mount Banahaw forest mouse (Apomys banahao) is a forest mouse, a rodent of the family Muridae, that is endemic to the Mount Banahaw area of Luzon in the Philippines. It belongs to the genus Apomys, a group of forest mice found only in the Philippines, and the Mammal Diversity Database places it in the subgenus Megapomys and the Indomalaya realm, with Banahaw Apomys as another common name. It was described in 2011 by a team led by Lawrence Heaney from a holotype collected near Barangay Lalo in Quezon Province at about 1,465 metres on Mount Banahaw. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it as a recently described living species with an IUCN Red List status of Least Concern.
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Muridae, Taxa Source Mammal Diversity Database: Apomys banahao
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Apomys banahaoCountry distributionQuote, Country distribution
Country distribution Philippines
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1. Mammal Diversity Database: Apomys banahao
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Species status Living
IUCN Red List status
IUCN Red List status Least Concern
Child Taxon Of: Muridae, Taxonomy, family
Family: Muridae
In Group: Rodents And Lagomorphs, Taxonomy
Order: Rodentia
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