Chrotomys Thomas, 1895

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 585

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scientific name	Chrotomys Thomas, 1895
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Chrotomys Thomas, 1895 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 16: 161.

TYPE SPECIES: Chrotomys whiteheadi Thomas, 1895 View in CoL .

COMMENTS: A Philippine Old Endemic most closely related to Celaenomys , and unrelated to shrew rats and shrew mice endemic to Australia and New Guinea ( Musser and Heaney, 1992). Actual distribution in archipelago and number of species in genus still unknown.