Luzon giant forest mouse

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Luzon giant forest mouse
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Apomys
Species:	A. magnus
Binomial name
*Apomys magnus* Heaney, Balete, Alviola, Duya, Veluz, VandeVrede & Steppan, 2011^[1]

The Luzon giant forest mouse (Apomys magnus) is a forest mouse endemic to Luzon, Philippines.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Heaney, L.R.; Balete, D.S.; Veluz, M.J.; Steppan, S.J.; Esseltyn, J.A.; Pfeiffer, A.W.; Rickart, E.A. (2014). "Two new species of Philippine forest mice (Apomys, Muridae, Rodentia) from Lubang and Luzon Islands, with a redescription of Apomys sacobianus Johnson, 1962". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 126 (4): 395–413. doi:10.2988/0006-324X-126.4.395. S2CID 49347286.

Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Aethomys–Chrotomys)

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordate
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae

Aethomys
Division

Aethomys
(Bush rats)

Apodemus
Division

Apodemus
(Old world
field mice)

Tokudaia
(Ryukyu spiny rats)

Arvicanthis
Division

Arvicanthis (Unstriped grass mice)	Abyssinian grass rat (A. abyssinicus) Sudanian grass rat (A. ansorgei) Blick's grass rat (A. blicki) Nairobi grass rat (A. nairobae) Neumann's grass rat (A. neumanni) African grass rat (A. niloticus) Guinean grass rat (A. rufinus)
Desmomys	Harrington's rat (D. harringtoni) Yalden's rat (D. yaldeni)
Lemniscomys (Striped grass mice)	Barbary striped grass mouse (L. barbarus) Bellier's striped grass mouse (L. bellieri) Griselda's striped grass mouse (L. griselda) Hoogstraal's striped grass mouse (L. hoogstraali) Senegal one-striped grass mouse (L. linulus) Buffoon striped grass mouse (L. macculus) Mittendorf's striped grass mouse (L. mittendorfi) single-striped grass mouse (L. rosalia) Rosevear's striped grass mouse (L. roseveari) typical striped grass mouse (L. striatus) Heuglin's striped grass mouse (L. zebra)
Mylomys	African groove-toothed rat (M. dybowskii) Ethiopian mylomys (M. rex)
Pelomys (Groove-toothed creek rats)	Bell groove-toothed swamp rat (P. campanae) Creek groove-toothed swamp rat (P. fallax) Hopkins's groove-toothed swamp rat (P. hopkinsi) Issel's groove-toothed swamp rat (P. isseli) least groove-toothed swamp rat (P. minor)
Rhabdomys	mesic four-striped grass rat (R. dilectus) four-striped grass mouse (R. pumilio)

Chrotomys
Division

Apomys	Luzon Cordillera forest mouse (A. abrae) Luzon Aurora forest mouse (A. aurorae) Mount Banahaw forest mouse (A. banahao) Mount Tapulao forest mouse (A. brownorum) Camiguin forest mouse (A. camiguinensis) Luzon montane forest mouse (A. datae) large Mindoro forest mouse (A. gracilirostris) Mount Apo forest mouse (A. hylocoetes) Mindanao montane forest mouse (A. insignis) Mount Irid forest mouse (A. iridensis) Mindanao lowland forest mouse (A. littoralis) Lubang forest mouse (A. lubangensis) Luzon giant forest mouse (A. magnus) small Luzon forest mouse (A. microdon) Mount Mingan forest mouse (A. minganensis) least forest mouse (A. musculus) long-nosed Luzon forest mouse (A. sacobianus) Sierra Madre forest mouse (A. sierrae) Luzon Zambales forest mouse (A. zambalensis)
Archboldomys	Mount Isarog shrew-mouse (A. luzonensis) Large Cordillera shrew-mouse (A. maximus)
Soricomys	Soricomys kalinga Soricomys leonardocoi Southern Cordillera shrew-mouse (S. montanus) Sierra Madre shrew-mouse (S. musseri)
Chrotomys (Luzon striped rats)	Isarog striped shrew-rat (C. gonzalesi) Mindoro striped rat (C. mindorensis) Sibuyan striped shrew-rat (C. sibuyanensis) blazed Luzon shrew-rat (C. silaceus) Luzon striped rat (C. whiteheadi)
Rhynchomys (Shrewlike rats)	Banahao shrew-rat (R. banahao) Isarog shrew-rat (R. isarogensis) Labo shrew-rat (R. labo) Mingan shrew-rat (R. mingan) Mount Data shrew-rat (R. soricoides) Tapulao shrew-rat (R. tapulao)

See also: Colomys–Golunda; Hadromys–Maxomys; Melasmothrix–Mus; Oenomys–Pithecheir; Pogonomys–Pseudomys; Rattus; Stenocephalomys–Xeromys; Otomys; Others

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