White-toothed brush mouse | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Tribe: | Hydromyini |
Genus: | Brassomys Musser & Lunde, 2009 [2] |
Species: | B. albidens |
Binomial name | |
Brassomys albidens (Tate, 1951) |
The white-toothed brush mouse (Brassomys albidens), also known as the white-toothed melomys or white-toothed mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. [2] It is found only in West Papua, Indonesia. [2] [1] It is the only species in genus Brassomys. [2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
The species was initially described in genus Melomys , but was then placed in the genus Coccymys . [3]