| Cloud rats Temporal range: Middle pleistocene - Recent
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| Northern Luzon slender-tailed cloud rat (Phloeomys pallidus) at the Cincinnati Zoo | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Subfamily: | Murinae |
| Tribe: | Phloeomyini Alston, 1876 |
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| Diversity | |
| 21 species | |
The cloud rats or cloudrunners are a tribe (Phloeomyini)[2] of arboreal and nocturnal herbivorous rodents endemic to the cloud forests of the Philippines. They belong to the family Muridae and include five genera: Batomys (hairy-tailed rats), Carpomys (dwarf cloud rats), Crateromys (bushy-tailed cloud rats), Musseromys (Luzon tree mice), and Phloeomys (giant cloud rats). They range in size from as large as 50 cm (20 in) to as small as 74 mm (2.9 in). Cloud rats are threatened by habitat loss and illegal hunting. Several species are endangered or critically endangered.[3][4][5]
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