Rattus fuscipes
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Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839). Zool. Voy. H.M.S. "Beagle," Mammalia, p. 66.
TYPE LOCALITY: Neotype from Australia, Western Australia, Albany, "Little Grove" on Princess Royal Harbor, 4 mi S Mt Melville; holotype was lost (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988; Taylor and Horner, 1973).
DISTRIBUTION: Coastal, subcoastal, and offshore islands of SW Western Australia; S coast from Eyre Peninsula in South Australia to W Victoria; coastal and subcoastal Victoria from Otway Peninsula north to near Rockhampton in Queensland; coastal Queensland from Townsville to Cooktown (see map in Taylor and Horner, 1973:15).
SYNONYMS: assintilis, brazenori, coracius, glauerti, greyii, manicatus, mondraineus, murrayi, peccatus, pelori, ravus.
COMMENTS: Taylor and Horner (1973) suggested, on morphological grounds, that the Queensland population of R. fuscipes (coracius) has a common ancestry with Queensland R. leucopus, a hypothesis reasserted by Taylor et al. (1982, 1983). This relationship, however, is not supported by either chromosomal (Dennis and Menzies, 1978) or biochemical data (Baverstock et al., 1983a, 1986). See Taylor and Calaby (1988a, Mammalian Species, 298).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Rattus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Waterhouse
- Species
- fuscipes
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Mahoney, J. A., and B. J. Richardson. 1988. Muridae. Pp. 154 - 192, in Zoological catalogue of Australia. Mammalia (J. L. Bannister, et. al.). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 5: 1 - 274.
- Taylor, J. M., and B. E. Horner. 1973. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 98. Systematics of native Australian Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 150: 1 - 130.
- Taylor, J. M., J. H. Calaby, and H. M. Van Deusen. 1982. A revision of the genus Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae) in the New Guinean region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 173: 177 - 336.
- Taylor, J. M., J. H. Calaby, and S. C. Smith. 1983. Native Rattus, land bridges, and the Australian region. Journal of Mammalogy, 64: 463 - 475.
- Dennis, E., and J. I. Menzies. 1978. Systematics and chromosomes of New Guinea Rattus. Australian Journal of Zoology, 26: 197 - 206.
- Baverstock, P. R., M. Gelder, and A. Jahnke. 1983 a. Chromosome evolution in Australian Rattus- - G-banding and hybrid meiosis. Genetica, 60: 93 - 103.
- Taylor, J. M., and J. H. Calaby. 1988 a. Rattus fuscipes. Mammalian Species, 298: 1 - 8.