Beaded wood mouse

{{Short description|Species of rodent}}

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| name = Beaded wood mouse

| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref={{cite iucn |author=Schlitter, D. |date=2019 |title=Hylomyscus aeta |volume=2019 |page=e.T10593A22451242 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T10593A22451242.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| genus = Hylomyscus

| species = aeta

| authority = (Thomas, 1911){{cite journal|last=Thomas|first=Oldfield|year=1911|title=Three new African rodents|journal= Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology| series=8|volume=7|issue=42|pages=590–593| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15815315}}

| synonyms = * Epimys aeta Thomas, 1911

}}

The beaded hylomyscus or beaded wood mouse (Hylomyscus aeta) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

It is found in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Uganda.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.