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Rattus ombirah Fabre, Miguez, Holden, Fitriana, Semiadi, Musser & Helgen, 2024, nom. nov.
Creators
- 1. Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, 34095 Montpellier, France & Mammal Section, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom & Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France & Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy), American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th St, New York, New York 10024 - 5192, United States of America
- 2. Mammal Section, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom
- 3. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy), American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th St, New York, New York 10024 - 5192, United States of America
- 4. Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Centre for Biosystematics and Evolution, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Jln. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km. 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
- 5. Research Centre for Ecology and Ethnobiology, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Jln. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km. 46 Cibinong, 16911, Indonesia
- 6. Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William St, Sydney, New South Wales 2010, Australia
Description
Rattus ombirah nom. nov.
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Replacement name for Rattus obiensis Fabre, Portela Miguez, Holden, Fitriana, Semiadi, Musser, & Helgen, 2023, a junior homonym of Rattus rattus obiensis Sody, 1941
Holotype. The holotype is MZB 38231, in the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense. See Fabre et al. (2023) for further details.
Type locality. The type locality is located on Gunung Sere, in the southwest of the island of Obi (North Maluku Province, Indonesia); see Fabre et al. (2023) for further details. This species is known only from the island of Obi to date.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from Ombirah an alternate name for the island of Obi.
Notes
Published as part of Fabre, Pierre-Henri, Miguez, Roberto Portela, Holden, Mary Ellen, Fitriana, Yuli S., Semiadi, Gono, Musser, Guy G. & Helgen, Kristofer M., 2024, A replacement name for the endemic Rattus (Muridae, Mammalia) of the island of Obi, Indonesia, pp. 131-132 in Records of the Australian Museum 76 (2) on page 132, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.76.2024.1899, http://zenodo.org/record/12172014
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.76.2024.1899 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/12172014 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFEF473A5F31FFAEF407AA1E0D14EE71 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/67945FCB-0651-4DC1-AF68-DF58448DBB51 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03D63F425F30FFAFF4F4AE0B0CEFEB82 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MZB
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Rattus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- MZB 38231
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabre & Miguez & Holden & Fitriana & Semiadi & Musser & Helgen
- Species
- ombirah
- Taxonomic status
- nom. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rattus ombirah Fabre, Miguez, Holden, Fitriana, Semiadi, Musser & Helgen, 2024
References
- Sody, H. J. V. 1941. On a collection of rats from the Indo-Malayan and Indo-Australian regions. Treubia 18: 255 - 325.
- Fabre, P. - H., R. Portela-Miguez, M. E. Holden, Y. S. Fitriana, G. Semiadi, G. G. Musser, and K. M. Helgen. 2023. Review of Moluccan Rattus (Rodentia: Muridae) with description of four new species. In Contributions to Mammalogy and Zooarchaeology of Wallacea, ed. K. M. Helgen and R. K. Jones. Records of the Australian Museum 75 (5): 673 - 718. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 2201 - 4349.75.2023.1783