Batomys salomonseni Sanborn 1953

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1296

Batomys salomonseni Sanborn 1953

Batomys salomonseni Sanborn 1953 , Vidensk. Medd. Nat. Foren. Kjobenhavn, 115: 287.

Type Locality: Philippines, Mindanao Isl, Bukidnon Province, Mt Katanglad, 1600 m.

Vernacular Names: Mindanao Batomys.

Distribution: Greater Mindanao Faunal Region on Isls of Mindanao, Dinagat, Biliran, and Leyte; tropical lowland evergreen rainforest to montane forest formations.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Originally described as the only species in Mindanaomys (Sanborn, 1953) , but that genus considered inseparable from Batomys ( Misonne, 1969; Musser and Heaney, 1992; Musser et al., 1998 a). Morphologically more closely related to B. granti than to B. dentatus or B. russatus ( Musser et al., 1998 a) , and the standard karyotype (2n = FN = 52) is indistinguishable from that of B. granti (Rickart and Heaney, 2002; Rickart and Musser, 1993). Distributional and ecological information summarized by Rickart et al. (1993) and Heaney et al. (1999).