Pencil-tailed tree mouse

Pencil-tailed tree mice; Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Holocene, 2.588–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse in Thailand
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Tribe:	Hydromyini
Genus:	Chiropodomys; Peters, 1868
Type species
	Mus gliroides;
Species
	Chiropodomys calamianensis; Chiropodomys gliroides; Chiropodomys karlkoopmani; Chiropodomys major; Chiropodomys muroides; Chiropodomys pusillus †Chiropodomys maximus; †Chiropodomys primitivus
Synonyms
	Insulaemus Taylor, 1934

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.

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Pencil-tailed tree mouse

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