Lesser Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse
Chiropodomys pusillus Thomas, 1893
Also calledKleine Pinselschwanz-Baummaus (deu) · Petite Souris-a-pinceau (fra) · drzewiarka mała (pol) · pikkupensselihiiri (fin) · Малая соневидная мышь (rus) · ヒメヤマネマウス (jpn)
First described in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6 vol.11 p.345
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Thomas described pusillus as a species, but Musser (1979) treated it as a distinctive subspecies of C. gliroides. However, the few known specimens of pusillus represent a population of small-bodied mice in which the range of variation of most dimensions are outside of the range recorded for all other samples of C. gliroides. On Mt Kinabalu in Sabah, C. pusillus is found between 300 and 1220 m (Md Nor, 2001; recorded as gliroides). Member of the endemic Bornean murine fauna (see account of C. major).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: Recorded only from Sabah, Sarawak, and S Kalimantan (Musser, 1979), but probably occurs throughout Borneo.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
materials_examined
Type Locality: Malaysia (Borneo), Sabah, Gunung Kinabalu, 1000 ft (305 m).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENTS: Thomas described pusillus as a species, but Musser (1979) treated it as a distinctive subspecies of C. gliroides. However, the few known specimens of pusillus represent a population of small-bodied mice in which the range of variation of most dimensions are outside of range recorded for all other samples of C. gliroides.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2438397.