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Sibuyan striped shrew-rat

species of mammal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ617790 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sibuyan striped shrew-rat (Chrotomys sibuyanensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. The holotype was collected in 1992; however, it wasn't formally described until 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sibuyan striped shrew-rat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.