Palawan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse vs utile

Chiropodomys calamianensis compared with Entandrophragma utile

Key Differences

• Palawan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse is Data Deficient while utile is Vulnerable.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Palawan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse	utile
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Rodentia (Rodents)	Sapindales (Sapindales)
Family	Muridae (Mice & Rats)	Meliaceae
Genus	Chiropodomys	Entandrophragma
Species	Chiropodomys calamianensis	Entandrophragma utile

Conservation Status

Palawan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse

DD — Data Deficient

utile

VU — Vulnerable

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Palawan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse	utile
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Palawan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

utile

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, and mangrove forests and coastal wetlands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Found in Guinea. Currently classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.