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Greater Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
Chiropodomys major
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Chiropodomys
- IUCN status
- LC
- Distribution
- Malaysia|Brunei?|Indonesia?
- Realm
- Indomalaya
Other names: Large Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse|Large Sunda Tree Mouse
About this species
- Habitat
- Forest on Borneo
- Range
- Endemic to Borneo (Sabah and Sarawak)
The large or greater pencil-tailed tree mouse is an arboreal rodent in the family Muridae, endemic to Borneo. It is known only from Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia, although it is likely also to occur in Kalimantan (Wikipedia, general species account).
Description: Wildlife of Malaysia guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)