Vandeleuria

Vandeleuria Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse (Vandeleuria oleracea)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Subfamily:	Murinae
Tribe:	Vandeleurini Pagès et al., 2015
Genus:	Vandeleuria Gray, 1842
Type species
Mus oleraceus
Species
Vandeleuria nilagirica Vandeleuria nolthenii Vandeleuria oleracea

Vandeleuria is a small genus of rodent from Asia with only three species.^[1] It is the only member of the tribe Vandeleurini. Species in this genus are known as the long-tailed climbing mice.^[2][3]

Species

• Nilgiri long-tailed tree mouse, Vandeleuria nilagirica Jerdon, 1867
• Nolthenius's long-tailed climbing mouse, Vandeleuria nolthenii Phillips, 1929
• Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse, Vandeleuria oleracea Bennett, 1832

References

1. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. Pagès, Marie; Fabre, Pierre-Henri; Chaval, Yannick; Mortelliti, Alessio; Nicolas, Violaine; Wells, Konstans; Michaux, Johan R.; Lazzari, Vincent (2016). "Molecular phylogeny of South-East Asian arboreal murine rodents" (PDF). Zoologica Scripta. 45 (4): 349–364. doi:10.1111/zsc.12161. ISSN 1463-6409. S2CID 86285898.
3. Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, retrieved 2021-12-07