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The northern Luzon giant cloud rat prefers forest and scrub, but also occurs in degraded habitats such as plantations. [1] It occurs from sea level to an altitude of about 2,200 metres (7,200 ft). [3] In some areas it overlaps with the rarer giant bushy-tailed cloud rat, but that species mainly occurs at higher altitudes than the northern Luzon ...
Carpomys dakal, the Sierra Madre giant cloud rat, is an extinct species of cloud rat from the Late Pleistocene of Luzon, the Philippines.Its remains are known from Callao Cave in the northern part of the island, dating to about 67,000 years ago, with the most recent remains dating from 2,000-4,000 years ago.
Phloeomys, the slender-tailed cloud rats, is a genus of large rodents in the family Muridae. Both species in this genus are endemic to the island of Luzon in the Philippines . Although their tail is covered by hairs, it is considerably less dense and shorter than in the rarer bushy-tailed cloud rats (genus Crateromys ) that also inhabit the ...
The cloud rats or cloudrunners are a tribe (Phloeomyini) [2] of arboreal and nocturnal herbivorous rodents endemic to the cloud forests of the Philippines.They belong to the family Muridae and include five genera: Batomys (hairy-tailed rats), Carpomys (dwarf cloud rats), Crateromys (bushy-tailed cloud rats), Musseromys (Luzon tree mice), and Phloeomys (giant cloud rats).
Mountain giant Sunda rat, Sundamys infraluteus; Giant cloud rats, southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat Phloeomys cumingi and northern Luzon giant cloud rat Phloeomys pallidus; White-eared giant rats, western white-eared giant rat, Hyomys dammermani and eastern white-eared giant rat Hyomys goliath; Woolly rats, genus Mallomys
Luzon Aurora forest mouse; Luzon broad-toothed rat; Luzon Cordillera forest mouse; Luzon fanged frog; Luzon fruit bat; Luzon giant forest mouse; Luzon hairy-tailed rat; Luzon montane forest mouse; Luzon narrow-mouthed frog; Luzon short-nosed rat; Luzon shrew; Luzon striped rat; Luzon Zambales forest mouse; Lycodon solivagus
The southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat is a large rodent that has a total length of about 67–75 cm (26–30 in) and weighs 1.45–2.1 kg (3.2–4.6 lb). [ 2 ] Equally at home high amongst the branches of a tree as on the forest floor, the southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat is a slow-moving animal only active at night, spending the ...
The giant bushy-tailed cloud rat or Luzon bushy-tailed cloud rat (Crateromys schadenbergi) is a large, endangered species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is only found in pine and mossy forest at altitudes of 2,000–2,740 metres (6,560–8,990 ft) in the Central Cordillera of Luzon , the Philippines . [ 2 ]