Vandeleuria

Vandeleuria is a small genus of rodent from Asia with only three species.[1] It is the only member of the tribe Vandeleurini. Species in this genus are known as the long-tailed climbing mice.[2][3]

Vandeleuria
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse (Vandeleuria oleracea)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Subfamily: Murinae
Tribe: Vandeleurini
Pagès et al., 2015
Genus: Vandeleuria
Gray, 1842
Type species
Mus oleraceus
Species

Vandeleuria nilagirica
Vandeleuria nolthenii
Vandeleuria oleracea

Species

References

  1. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. 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. ISSN 1463-6409. S2CID 86285898.
  3. Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, retrieved 2021-12-07


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