Ceylon spiny mouse

The Ceylon spiny mouse (Mus fernandoni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae that is found only in Sri Lanka. It is a small mouse with a head and body length of 9 to 11 centimetres and a tail of 6 to 7 centimetres, reddish grey above with flat grey spines mixed into the fur, pure white underparts, dark relatively large ears, a pointed snout and orange incisors. Wikipedia lists it as an endangered species known only from a handful of sites in the Central, North Eastern, Southern and Uva provinces, including Yala National Park. The IUCN assessment relayed through GBIF also gives it as Endangered, and the species was described by Phillips in 1932.