Gray-bellied tree mouse
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Pogonomys
Species:	P. sylvestris
Binomial name
Pogonomys sylvestris Thomas, 1920

The gray-bellied tree mouse (Pogonomys sylvestris) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Papua New Guinea.

It is consumed by the Kalam people of Papua New Guinea, and is hunted by women who look for it in its burrows.^[2]

• 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. p. 1443. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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