Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Synapsida
Cladus: Eupelycosauria
Cladus: Sphenacodontia
Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea
Cladus: Therapsida
Cladus: Theriodontia
Cladus: Cynodontia
Cladus: Eucynodontia
Cladus: Probainognathia
Cladus: Prozostrodontia
Cladus: Mammaliaformes
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Trechnotheria
Infraclassis: Zatheria
Supercohors: Theria
Cohors: Eutheria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Cladus: Boreoeutheria
Superordo: Euarchontoglires
Ordo: Rodentiaa
Subordo: Myomorpha
Superfamilia: Muroidea
Familia: Muridae
Subfamilia: Murinae
Tribus: Hydromyini
Genus: Chiropodomys
Species (6): C. calamianensis - C. gliroides - C. karlkoopmani - C. major - C. muroides - C. pusillus
Name
Chiropodomys Peters, 1869: 448
Type species: Chiropodomys penicillatus Peters, 1869, by monotypy.
Synonyms
Insulaemus Taylor, 1934: 469 [synonymised by Ellerman (1941: 86)]
Type species: Insulaemus calamianensis Taylor, 1934, by original designation and monotypy.
References
Primary references
Taylor, E.H. 1934. Philippine Land Mammals. Monographs of the Bureau of Science 30: 1–548. GoogleBooks Reference page.
Ellerman, J.R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Volume 2. Family Muridae. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. xii + 690 pp. BHL Reference page.
Chiropodomys (or pencil-tailed tree mice) is a genus of Old World rats and mice native to Southeast Asia and northeast India.[2] 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.
Species
Genus Chiropodomys — pencil-tailed tree mice:[2]
Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse, Chiropodomys calamianensis Taylor, 1934, Palawan and neighboring islands
Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse, Chiropodomys gliroides Blyth, 1856, northeast India, southeastern China, mainland Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Java
Koopman's pencil-tailed tree mouse, Chiropodomys karlkoopmani Musser, 1979, Mentawai Islands
Large pencil-tailed tree mouse, Chiropodomys major Thomas, 1893, Borneo
Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse, Chiropodomys muroides Medway, 1965, Borneo
Small pencil-tailed tree mouse, Chiropodomys pusillus Thomas, 1893, Borneo
†Chiropodomys maximus, Thailand
†Chiropodomys primitivus, southern China
Description
Species of Chiropodomys have a body length of 7 to 12 cm, plus a tail of 9 to 17 cm. They are generally gray or brown on the back and white underneath. The tail is only sparsely covered with hair, but has somewhat more at the end, giving the appearance of a pencil, thus the genus name.
Chiropodomys gliroides is particularly common in bamboo forest. It is active at night, sleeps during the day in a nest in the bamboo, padded with leaves. It eats exclusively plants.
Previously, it was thought that Chiropodomys were closely related to the genus Hapalomys (marmoset rats), with both forming a clade with Micromys and Vandeleuria; however, more recent phylogenetic studies support them being closely allied with the Australasian mice and rats of the tribe Hydromyini, either as a distinct tribe of their own or as a group within Hydromyini.[3][4]
References
"Chiropodomys Peters 1868". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
Pagès, Marie; Fabre, Pierre-Henri; Chaval, Yannick; Mortelliti, Alessio; Nicolas, Violaine; Wells, Konstans; Michaux, Johan R.; Lazzari, Vincent (2016). "Molecular phylogeny of South-East Asian arboreal murine rodents". Zoologica Scripta. 45 (4): 349–364. doi:10.1111/zsc.12161. hdl:10072/101842. ISSN 1463-6409. S2CID 86285898.
Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, retrieved 2021-12-11
Ronald M. Nowak: Walker's Mammals of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 ISBN 0-8018-5789-9
Wells K, Pfeiffer M, Lakim MB & Linsenmair KE (2004) "Arboreal spacing patterns of the Large pencil-tailed tree mouse Chiropodomys major in a rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia." Ecotropica 10 : 15-22
Wells K, Pfeiffer M, Lakim MB & Linsenmair KE (2004) "Use of arboreal and terrestrial space by a small mammal community in a tropical rain forest in Borneo, Malaysia." Journal of Biogeography 31 : 641-652.
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