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Subgenus of rodents

Coelomys
Gairdner's shrewmouse (Mus pahari)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Mus
Subgenus: Coelomys
Thomas, 1915
Species

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Coelomys is a subgenus of the rodent genus Mus, the mice. This subgenus is native to Southeast Asia.

Species:

  • Mus crociduroides – Sumatran shrewlike mouse (Western Sumatra)
  • Mus mayori – Mayor's mouse (Sri Lanka)
  • Mus pahari – Gairdner's shrewmouse, Indochinese shrewlike mouse, Sikkim mouse (Northeastern India to southwestern Cambodia and northern Vietnam)
  • Mus vulcani – volcano mouse, Javan shrewlike mouse (Western Java)

References

  1. Chevret, P., Veyrunes, F., & Britton-Davidian, J. (2005). Molecular phylogeny of the genus Mus (Rodentia: Murinae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84(3), 417-427.
  2. Mus (Coelomys) Thomas, 1915. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Extant species of subfamily Murinae (MelasmothrixMus)
Melasmothrix
division
Melasmothrix
Tateomys
(Greater Sulawesian
shrew rats)
Micromys
division
Chiropodomys
(Pencil-tailed
tree mice)
Haeromys
(Pygmy tree mice)
Hapalomys
(Marmoset rats)
Micromys
Vandeleuria
(Long-tailed
climbing mice)
Vernaya
Millardia
division
Cremnomys
Diomys
Madromys
Millardia
(Asian
soft-furred rats)
Mus division
Muriculus
Mus
(Typical mice)
See also
AethomysChrotomys
ColomysGolunda
HadromysMaxomys
OenomysPithecheir
PogonomysPseudomys
Rattus
StenocephalomysXeromys
Otomys
Others
Taxon identifiers
Coelomys
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