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The fifth strict endemic is the northern Luzon shrew-mouse (Crunomys fallax), known from a single specimen collected at about 300 m in the northern Sierra Madres.
Luzon rain forests 2008
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Other ecoregional endemic mammals include the Javan mastiff bat (Otomops formosus), Javan shrew-mouse (Mus vulcani), and the red tree rat (Pithecheir melanurus).
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The mammal species includes Thomas's leaf-monkey (Presbytis thomasi), one of Sumatra's four leaf-monkeys, Sumatran rabbit (Nesolagus netscheri), and Sumatran shrew-mouse (Mus crociduroides).
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Three of the five strict endemics are found only on Mt. Isarog, and none was been described before 1981: Isarog shrew-mouse (Archboldomys luzonensis), Isarog striped shrew-rat (Chrotomys gonzalesi), and Isarog shrew-rat (Rhynchomys isarogensis).
Luzon rain forests 2008
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Four of these species are considered critically endangered: Bulmer's fruit-bat (Aproteles bulmerae), large leptomys (Leptomys elegans), eastern shrew-mouse (Pseudohydromys murinus), and lesser small-toothed rat (Macruromys elegans).
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The strictly endemic Palanan shrew-mouse, Archboldomys musseri, is known only from two specimens taken at about 1,650 m from Mt. Cetaceo in the northern Sierra Madres.
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Rodents and four Insectivora, including a shrew-mouse and six squirrels, whose unaided passage over twenty miles of sea is even more inconceivable than that of the larger animals.
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To meet with a shrew-mouse, in going a journey, is reckoned ominous of evil.
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That the shrew-mouse is called in Latin _sorex_, seems to be an accidental coincidence.
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The French have confounded the two, and give the name _souris_ to the common mouse, but _not_ to the shrew-mouse.
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