Chapa pygmy dormouse

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Chapa pygmy dormouse
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Platacanthomyidae
Genus:	Typhlomys
Species:	T. cinereus
Subspecies:	T. c. chapensis
Trinomial name
Typhlomys cinereus chapensis (Osgood, 1932)

The Chapa pygmy dormouse or Vietnamese pygmy dormouse (Typhlomys cinereus chapensis) is a rodent endemic to Vietnam; this nocturnal creature is 7-10cm long (3-4 inches), with a tail of 10-13cm (4-5 inches) and long ears.^[1]

In 2014, it was mainly found to the west of the Red River, in north Vietnam and southern Yunan Province in China.^[2]

It is often seen as a subspecies of the Chinese pygmy dormouse (T. cinereus), along with T. ci daloushanensis, T. ci. Guangxiensis and T. ci. Jingdongensis; in 2014, it was seen by Abramov et al as an individual species and separate from T. cinereus.^[2]

At the start of the 21st century, it was listed as a critically endangered species.^[3] By 2017, the status of the general T. cincereus was as a creature of ‘least concern’.^[4]

• Baillie (1996). "Typhlomys chapensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996. Retrieved 9 May 2006.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help) Listed as Critically Endangered (CR B1+2 cd v2.3)
• Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 894–1531. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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