Sibuyan Striped Shrew Rat
Chrotomys sibuyanensis Rickart, Heaney, Goodman & Jansa, 2005
Also calledChrotomys de Sibuyan (fra) · Sibuyan-Streifenratte (deu) · pręgoszczur sibujański (pol)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
activity
Activity patterns. The only known specimen was fresh when found in a snap-trap at 16: 00 h, and was very likely active during day.
Muridae
biology_ecology
Habitat. Evergreen tropical rainforest. According to the species’ describers, the only known specimen was captured on “ a steep ridge in a transition zone between montane and mossy forest habitat. Dominant vegetation ... included climbing bamboo (Schizostachyum [Poaceae]) and a gymnosperm tree (Podocarpus [Podocarpaceae]) ” ... and the “ understory consisted primarilyof creeping pandan (Freycinetia [Pandanaceael]). ” Sibuyan has an area of 445 km ” and two peaks: Mount Guiting-Guiting, with height of 2058 m, and Mount Nailog, with height of ¢. 790 m.
Muridae
biology_ecology
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Muridae
breeding
Breeding. The adult male specimenhad enlarged testes measuring 20 mm x 12 mm when captured on 8 March 1992.
Muridae
In the stacks
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Every page naming Chrotomys sibuyanensis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5786707.