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Leptomys ernstmayri Rummler 1932
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Leptomys ernstmayri Rümmler, 1932. Das Aquarium, 6:134.
TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Huon Peninsula, Saruwaged Mts, Ogeramnang, 1785 m.
DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea (above 1250 m in Owen Stanley Range from Mt Dayman west to Kratke Mts and Purosa region in Eastern Highlands Prov., then northeast to mountains on Huon Peninsula; probably occurs farther west in Papuan Central Cordillera, but limits unknown); Irian Jaya (Arfak Mts only; limits unknown).
COMMENTS: A distinctive species distinguished from L. elegans by the diagnostic and distributional traits enumerated by Rümmler (1932). It is endemic to mountain rainforest and in Owen Stanley Range replaces L. elegans at elevations above 1000 m.
Notes
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 605, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Leptomys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Rummler
- Species
- ernstmayri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptomys ernstmayri Rummler, 1932 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Helgen, K. M., and D. E. Wilson. in press. A systematic and zoogeographic overview of the raccoons of Mexico and Central America. Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, Mexico.
- Rummler, H. 1932. Uber die Schwimmratten (Hydromyinae). Das Aquarium, 1932: 131 - 135.