The Luzon forest rat or Luzon hairy-tailed rat (''Batomys granti'') is one of five species of

rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are n ...

in the

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

Batomys. It is in the diverse family Muridae. This species is found only in the

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. This species was the first of the five to be identified and stayed the sole indicator for the genus for roughly 75 years, until 1988. Majority of this species lives on

Mount Data Mount Data is a mountain located in the Cordillera Central mountain range rising to a height of in the north of Luzon Island, Philippines. It is about north of Baguio on the borders of the provinces of Benguet and Mountain Province along the ...

which is one of several mountains in the Cordillera Mountains region of Northern

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References

* Heaney, L. 1996.
Batomys granti

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Downloaded on 9 July 2007. * *Balete, D. & Rickart, E. & Heaney, L. ''A new species of Batomys (Muridae, Rodentia) from southern Luzon Island, Philippines.'' BioOne Complete. Retrieved 11 April 2019. Rats of Asia Endemic fauna of the Philippines Fauna of Luzon Rodents of the Philippines Batomys Mammals described in 1895 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Murinae-stub