Hog-nosed shrew rat

The hog-nosed shrew rat, also called the Sulawesi snouter, is a rodent in the family Muridae and the subfamily Murinae, known by the scientific name Hyorhinomys stuempkei. It is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is known only from Mount Dako in Tolitoli Regency, Central Sulawesi. Jacob Esselstyn and his team described it in 2015 and placed it in the new genus Hyorhinomys, of which it is the only species. It has particularly long incisors and lacks the coronoid process, the jaw muscle attachment point, which fits a diet of earthworms and beetle larvae that needs no forceful chewing. The name snouter nods to the spoof book The Snouters by Gerolf Steiner, writing as Harald Stuempke, and the species name honors that fictional author. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists it as Data Deficient.