Mount Oku hylomyscus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Genus: | Hylomyscus |
Species: | H. grandis
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Binomial name | |
Hylomyscus grandis Eisentraut, 1969
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The Mount Oku hylomyscus (Hylomyscus grandis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.[2] Found only on Mount Oku, Cameroon, in tropical Central Africa, its natural habitat is tropical moist montane forests. It has a very small range and is threatened by habitat destruction, so the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being "critically endangered".