# Lesser tree mouse > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lesser_tree_mouse > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lesser_tree_mouse.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_tree_mouse > Source revision: 1314566234 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Species of rodent Lesser tree mouse Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Placentalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Chiruromys Species: C. vates Binomial name Chiruromys vates (Thomas, 1908) The **lesser tree mouse** (***Chiruromys vates***) is a species of [rodent](/source/Rodent) in the family [Muridae](/source/Muridae) found only in [Papua New Guinea](/source/Papua_New_Guinea). ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-iucn_status_16_November_2021_1-0)** Aplin, K. (2016). ["*Chiruromys vates*"](https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/4693/22448155). *[IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](/source/IUCN_Red_List)*. **2016** e.T4693A22448155. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T4693A22448155.en](https://doi.org/10.2305%2FIUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T4693A22448155.en). Retrieved 16 November 2021. - [Musser, G. G.](/source/Guy_Musser); Carleton, M. D. (2005). ["Superfamily Muroidea"](http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13001285). In [Wilson, D. E.](/source/Don_E._Wilson); Reeder, D. M. (eds.). [*Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference*](http://www.google.com/books?id=JgAMbNSt8ikC&pg=PA1305) (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1305. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8018-8221-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-8221-0). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [62265494](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/62265494). v t e Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Pogonomys–Pseudomys) Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordate Class: Mammalia Superorder: Euarchontoglires Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Pogonomys Division Abeomelomys Highland brush mouse (A. sevia) Anisomys Squirrel-toothed rat (A. imitator) Brassomys White-toothed brush mouse (B. albidens) Chiruromys Greater tree mouse (C. forbesi) Broad-headed tree mouse (C. lamia) Lesser tree mouse (C. vates) Coccymys C. kirrhos Rümmler's brush mouse (C. ruemmleri) C. shawmayeri Hyomys (White-eared rats) Western white-eared giant rat (H. dammermani) Eastern white-eared giant rat (H. goliath) Macruromys (New Guinean rats) Lesser small-toothed rat (M. elegans) Eastern small-toothed rat (M. major) Mallomys (Giant tree rats) De Vis's woolly rat (M. aroaensis) Alpine woolly rat (M. gunung) Subalpine woolly rat (M. istapantap) Rothschild's woolly rat (M. rothschildi) Bosavi woolly rat (M. sp. nov.) Arfak woolly rat (M. sp. nov.) Foja woolly rat (M. sp. nov.) Mammelomys Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat (M. lanosus) Large mosaic-tailed rat (M. rattoides) Pogonomelomys (Rummler's mosaic tailed rats) Grey pogonomelomys (P. brassi) Lowland brush mouse (P. bruijni) Shaw Mayer's brush mouse (P. mayeri) Pogonomys (Prehensile-tailed rats) Champion's tree mouse (P. championi) D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago pogonomys (P. fergussoniensis) Large tree mouse (P. loriae) Chestnut tree mouse (P. macrourus) Prehensile-tailed rat (P. mollipilosus) Gray-bellied tree mouse (P. sylvestris) Xenuromys Mimic tree rat (X. barbatus) Pseudomys Division Conilurus Brush-tailed rabbit rat (C. penicillatus) Leggadina Forrest's mouse (L. forresti) Lakeland Downs mouse (L. lakedownensis) Leporillus (Australian stick-nest rats) Greater stick-nest rat (L. conditor) Mastacomys Broad-toothed mouse (M. fuscus) Mesembriomys (Tree rats) Black-footed tree-rat (M. gouldii) Golden-backed tree-rat (M. macrurus) Notomys (Australian hopping mice) Spinifex hopping mouse (N. alexis) Northern hopping mouse (N. aquilo) Fawn hopping mouse (N. cervinus) Dusky hopping mouse (N. fuscus) Mitchell's hopping mouse (N. mitchellii) Pseudomys (Australian native mice) Ash-grey mouse (P. albocinereus) Silky mouse (P. apodemoides) Plains rat (P. australis) Bolam's mouse (P. bolami) Kakadu pebble-mound mouse (P. calabyi) Western pebble-mound mouse (P. chapmani) Little native mouse (P. delicatulus) Desert mouse (P. desertor) Smoky mouse (P. fumeus) Gould's mouse (P. gouldii) Eastern chestnut mouse (P. gracilicaudatus) Sandy inland mouse (P. hermannsburgensis) Long-tailed mouse (P. higginsi) Central pebble-mound mouse (P. johnsoni) Western chestnut mouse (P. nanus) New Holland mouse (P. novaehollandiae) Western mouse (P. occidentalis) Hastings River mouse (P. oralis) Country mouse (P. patrius) Pilliga mouse (P. pilligaensis) Heath mouse (P. shortridgei) Zyzomys (Thick-tailed rats) Common rock rat (Z. argurus) Arnhem Land rock rat (Z. maini) Carpentarian rock rat (Z. palatalis) Central rock rat (Z. pedunculatus) Kimberley rock rat (Z. woodwardi) See also Aethomys–Chrotomys Colomys–Golunda Hadromys–Maxomys Melasmothrix–Mus Oenomys–Pithecheir Rattus Stenocephalomys–Xeromys Otomys Others Taxon identifiers Chiruromys vates Wikidata: Q304132 Wikispecies: Chiruromys vates CoL: 5XTW9 EoL: 1179040 GBIF: 2438349 iNaturalist: 45625 IRMNG: 10215146 ITIS: 585192 IUCN: 4693 MDD: 1003161 MSW: 13001285 NCBI: 442566 Observation.org: 82583 Open Tree of Life: 118383 Xeno-canto: Chiruromys-vates This Murinae article is a stub. 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