Lowland brush mouse

The lowland brush mouse (Pogonomelomys bruijni) is a rodent of the family Muridae found in Indonesia, on the island of Salawati and on the Vogelkop Peninsula in Papua Province. It is an arboreal animal that shelters in holes in trees. A second species, the grey pogonomelomys (Pogonomelomys brassi), was formerly included within it before being treated separately. The tropical humid forests it lives in are increasingly being cleared to make way for agriculture, which is thought to be affecting the species. It was once classified as critically endangered, but it proved more plentiful than had been believed and was reclassified as near threatened.