Mus vulcani (Robinson and Kloss, 1919)

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 : 629

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scientific name	Mus vulcani (Robinson and Kloss, 1919)
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Mus vulcani (Robinson and Kloss, 1919) View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 4:378.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, W Java, Gunung Gede, Gandang Badak, 7900 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to moss forests in mountains of W Java.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Coelomys . Originally described as a subspecies of Mycteromys crociduroides (see Chasen, 1940), but is a separate species. Both M. vulcani and M. crociduroides are the only native Mus known from islands on the Sunda Shelf (Musser, 1986; Musser and Newcomb, 1983).