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Rattus mindorensis
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Rattus mindorensis (Thomas, 1898). Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 14:402.
TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines, Mindoro Isl, Mt Dulangan, 5000 ft.
DISTRIBUTION: Highlands of Mindoro (Philippines).
SYNONYMS: picinus.
COMMENTS: Phylogenetically distant from other species of Rattus native to the Philippines (Musser and Heaney, 1992). Morphologically closely related to Rattus tiomanicus, which is native to Malay Peninsula and islands on the Sunda Shelf, and possibly only an insular variant of that species (Musser and Califia, 1982; Musser and Heaney, 1985). Musser (1977b) explained why picinus is a synonym.
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 655, 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
- Rattus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Species
- mindorensis
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rattus mindorensis (Thomas, 1898) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Musser, G. G., and L. R. Heaney. 1992. Philippine rodents: Definitions of Tarsomys and Limnomys plus a preliminary assessment of phylogenetic patterns among native Philippine murines (Murinae, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 211: 1 - 138.
- Musser, G. G., and D. Califia. 1982. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 106. Identities of rats from Pulau Maratua and other islands off East Borneo. American Museum Novitates, 2726: 1 - 30.
- Musser, G. G. 1977 b. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 100. Notes on the Philippine rat, Limnomys, and the identity of Limnomys picinus, a composite. American Museum Novitates, 2636: 1 - 14.