Highland Brush Mouse

Taxobox
name = Highland Brush Mouse
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
subfamilia = Murinae
genus = "Abeomelomys"
genus_authority = Menzies, 1990
species = "A. sevia"
binomial = "Abeomelomys sevia"
binomial_authority = (Tate & Archbold, 1935)
synonyms = "Pogonomelomys sevia"The Highland Brush Mouse ("Abeomelomys sevia") is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found only in Papua New Guinea. It is the only species in the genus "Abeomelomys", although it has been placed in "Pogonomelomys" in the past.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/17879/all Pogonomelomys sevia] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
*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.