Rattus lutreolus subsp. imbil Troughton 1937
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Description
Rattus lutreolus imbil Troughton, 1937b
Aust. Zool. 8(4): 283. (12 March 1937).
Common name. Swamp Rat.
Current name. Rattus lutreolus lutreolus (J. Gray, 1841), following Taylor & Horner (1973).
Holotype. M.6228 by original designation. Male adult, [Field no. 12B1], skull, study skin, collected by W.A. MacDougall, registered 16 November 1936, collection date not given.
Condition. Cranium, fracture in right zygomatic arch; right dentary missing coronoid process; left dentary complete. Study skin: bald patch on right shoulder area, bald patch on left side of abdomen, bald patch on left flank.
Type locality. Imbil, Gympie district, Qld, Australia.
Paratype. M.6444 by subsequent determination. Female, [Field no. 12B2], body in alc., collected at Imbil, presented by W. A. MacDougall, collection date not given, presented in November 1936, registered March 1938.
Comments. In the original description, Troughton (1937b: 282) states that a male and female were received from Imbil, but only the holotype male is mentioned in the description. The female is M.6444 and although not registered until after the paper was published, the register entry for this specimen refers to the same letter of 1936 as for the holotype; the card index for M.6444 has in Troughton’s handwriting “To be designated Allotype in later paper”, which apparently was never published. In the AM annual report, Troughton (1938) states that the “typical specimens” were lodged in the AM. Not subsequently recognized as a valid subspecies by Troughton (1965b).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Rattus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Troughton
- Species
- imbil
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rattus lutreolus subsp. imbil Troughton, 1937 sec. Parnaby, Ingleby & Divljan, 2017
References
- Troughton, E. L. G. 1937 b. On new forms of the eastern swamp rat, and the relationship of Mastacomys. Australian Zoologist 8 (4): 281 - 286.
- Gray, J. E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia of Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. In Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia, During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, & c., ed. G. Grey, pp. 397 - 414. London: T. & W. Boone. Vol. 2.
- Troughton, E. L. G. 1938. The collections. Mammals. In Australian Museum. (Annual report of the Trustees for the year 1936 - 7), ed. F. S. Mance and W. T. Wells, pp. 4 - 5. Sydney: Australian Museum.
- Troughton, E. [L. G.] 1965 b. Furred Animals of Australia. Eighth edition. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. xxxii + 376 pp.