Dinagat Bushy-Tailed Cloud Rat

Dinagat Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Crateromys
Species:	C. australis
Binomial name
Crateromys australis Musser, Heaney & Rabor, 1985

The Dinagat Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat or Dinagat Island Cloud Rat (Crateromys australis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

• Heaney, L. 1996. Crateromys australis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 July 2007.
• Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.