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Carpomys melanurus
short-footed Luzon tree rat
The short-footed Luzon tree rat (Carpomys melanurus) was long known only from a single specimen collected from Mount Data in the late nineteenth century.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 2, restricted, extent unclear Class Mammalia Realm Indo-Malaysian Locality The Cordillera Central As IUCN records it Carpomys melanurus Thomas, 1895 This species is one of 3,062 in a list of vertebrates the IUCN Red List records as Data Deficient or has never assessed, ranked by how narrowly restricted the published record says they are. The sentence above is the evidence the tier was read from, quoted from Matthew Richardson, Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the World (2023).
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