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Pencil-tailed Tree Mice
Chiropodomys
Chiropodomys (or pencil-tailed tree mice) is a genus of Old World rats and mice native to Southeast Asia and northeast India. They are tree-dwelling, very small mice, mostly found in tropical rainforest. In total six extant species have been identified, but only one of these, Chiropodomys gliroides, is common and widely distributed, and has been extensively studied.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species
Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
speciesChiropodomys gliroides
Greater Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
speciesChiropodomys major
Palawan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
speciesChiropodomys calamianensis
Lesser Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
speciesChiropodomys pusillus
Gray-bellied Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
speciesChiropodomys muroides
Koopman’s Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
speciesChiropodomys karlkoopmani
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 45597.