Crateromys

{{Short description|Genus of rodents}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Crateromys schadenbergi AB Meyer.jpg

| image_caption = Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys schadenbergi)

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Crateromys

| authority = Thomas, 1895

| type_species = Phloeomys schadenbergi

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

Crateromys australis

Crateromys heaneyi

Crateromys paulus

Crateromys schadenbergi

}}

Crateromys is a genus of rodent, native to the Philippines, in the family Muridae.{{MSW3 Muroidea | id = 13001301 | pages = 1310-1311}} It contains four species extant species, and one extinct species.

  • Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys australis)
  • Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys schadenbergi)
  • Panay bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys heaneyi)
  • Ilin Island bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys paulus)
  • {{extinct}}Sierra Madre bushy-tailed cloud rat Crateromys ballik''{{Cite journal|last1=Ochoa|first1=Janine|last2=Mijares|first2=Armand S B|last3=Piper|first3=Philip J|last4=Reyes|first4=Marian C|last5=Heaney|first5=Lawrence R|date=2021-04-23|title=Three new extinct species from the endemic Philippine cloud rat radiation (Rodentia, Muridae, Phloeomyini)|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyab023|journal=Journal of Mammalogy|volume=102 |issue=gyab023|pages=909–930 |doi=10.1093/jmammal/gyab023|issn=0022-2372}}

References

{{Reflist}}

{{Murinae (Oenomys–Pithecheir)}}

{{Myomorpha|E.|state=collapsed}}

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Category:Rodents of the Philippines

Category:Rodent genera

Category:Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Crateromys

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