Velvet Climbing Mouse

Velvet Climbing Mouse Temporal range: Recent
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Nesomyidae
Subfamily:	Dendromurinae
Genus:	Dendroprionomys F. Petter, 1966
Species:	D. rousseloti
Binomial name
Dendroprionomys rousseloti F. Petter, 1966

The Velvet Climbing Mouse (Dendroprionomys rousseloti) is a species of rodent in the Nesomyidae family. It is found only in Republic of the Congo.

References

• 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.
• Schlitter, D. 2004. Dendroprionomys rousseloti. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.