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Mount Banahaw forest mouse

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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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Classification
Living or Extinct
Yes 1
Conservation Status
Least Concern 1
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Muridae, Taxa
Source Mammal Diversity Database: Apomys banahao
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Apomys banahaoCountry distribution
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Country distribution Philippines
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1. Mammal Diversity Database: Apomys banahao
Mammal Diversity Database
  • Species status
    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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