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Phloeomys
cumingi
(Waterhouse, 1839). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., p. 108.
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ORDER—RODENTIA
FAMILY—Muridae
COMMON NAME—Bugkun,
Southern Luzon giant cloud rat.
DISTRIBUTION—Luzon Faunal Region only. Recorded on Catanduanes (USNM)
and southern Luzon (Camarines Sur [FMNH], Laguna [UPLB], and Quezon [UPLB]
provinces (Oliver et al., 1993a). Reported from Marinduque (Steere, 1890).
HABITAT—On Mt. Isarog and Catanduanes, this species was found in
disturbed lowland forest from 150 m to 900 m elevation (Heaney et al.,
1991, in press; Oliver et al. 1993a; Rickart et al, 1991).
STATUS—Moderately
widespread and common, but heavily hunted and subject to habitat destruction
(Oliver et al., 1993a). IUCN: Vulnerable.
©2002
(photograph by
L. Heaney)
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