Cladus: Eukaryota Name Archboldomys Musser, 1982 Vernacular names References * Archboldomys on Mammal Species of the World. ---- Archboldomys, the shrew-mice, are a genus of rodents in the family Muridae. They are carnivores that feed on invertebrates much like shrews do. A apparently smaller relatives of the true shrew-rats Chrotomys and Rhynchomys, Archboldomys are somewhat convergent to the more distantly related Crunomys.[1] The species are:[2] * Mt Isarog Shrew-mouse, Archboldomys luzonensis A. kalinga was only discovered on March 30, 2000, and described in 2006.[1] References 1. ^ a b Balete et al. (2006) * Balete, Danilo S.; Rickart, Eric A. & Heaney, Lawrence R. (2006): A new species of the shrew-mouse, Archboldomys (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae), from the Philippines. Systematics and Biodiversity 4(4): 489–501. doi:10.1017/S1477200006002003 (HTML abstract) Source: Wikispecies: All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License |
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