Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse

Taxobox
name = Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse
status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend = unknown
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Nesomyidae
subfamilia = Dendromurinae
genus = "Dendromus"
species = "D. kahuziensis"
binomial = "Dendromus kahuziensis"
binomial_authority = (Dieterlen, 1969)

The Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse ("Dendromus kahuziensis") is a rodent found only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to illegal logging; it is also threatened by fire. Only two specimens have ever been found. Both were found within 100m of each other. Its body length (excluding tail) is 50-100mm and its tail length is 65-132mm. Its habitat is tropical forests, and to navigate these forests it may use its semi-prehensile tail to hold onto tree branches. Its markings are brownish on the top and white to yellow on its underside, with strongly dark rings around its eyes. As with other "Dendromus", it has three well defined toes.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is critically endangered
*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.