Nilgiri long-tailed tree mouse

The Nilgiri long-tailed tree mouse, Vandeleuria nilagirica, also called the Nilgiri vandeleuria and the Indian long-tailed tree mouse, is a rodent of the family Muridae found in India. It was long treated as a subspecies of the Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse, and there has been some dispute about whether it deserves separate rank, but current opinion appears to favour treating it as a distinct species. Animal Diversity Web places the genus Vandeleuria in the subfamily Murinae, the Old World rats and mice, within the order Rodentia. The encyclopedic sources read for this entry give its names, its taxonomic history and the country where it occurs, but no detailed account of its size, diet, breeding or conservation status.