Chapa pygmy dormouse

Chapa pygmy dormouse
Chapa pygmy dormouse
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Myomorpha
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Platacanthomyidae
Genus: Typhlomys
Species: Typhlomys cinereus
Subspecies: T. c. chapensis
Trinomial name
Typhlomys cinereus chapensis
(Osgood, 1932)

The Chapa pygmy dormouse or Vietnamese pygmy dormouse (Typhlomys cinereus chapensis) is a rodent endemic to Vietnam. It is listed as a critically endangered species. It is often considered a separate species, but is now recognized as a subspecies of the Chinese Pygmy Dormouse (T. cinereus).

References

  • Baillie (1996). Typhlomys chapensis. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 09 May 2006. Listed as Critically Endangered (CR B1+2cd v2.3)
  • Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

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