Montane Hylomyscus

Montane HylomyscusThe montane Hylomyscus lives in forest and high-elevation vegetation in the Ruwenzori Mountains. Adult specimens have tails longer than their head-and-body length; the 2006 review separated it from other forms once grouped under the same name.What does it look like?In adult specimens from the Ugandan Ruwenzori sample, the tail was longer than the head-and-body length.How does it live?The montane Hylomyscus lives in forest and high-elevation vegetation in the Ruwenzori Mountains. Adult specimens have tails longer than their head-and-body length; the 2006 review separated it from other forms once grouped under the same name.Above 2,100 m on the Ugandan side, it was more often recorded in Podocarpus forest, bamboo, tree heath, mossy forest, and alpine vegetation.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.