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Rattus timorensis Kitchener, Aplin, and Boeadi 1991
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Rattus timorensis Kitchener, Aplin, and Boeadi, 1991. Rec. West. Aust. Mus., 15:446.
TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara, Timor, Gunung Mutis, 1900 m, 7 km E Desa Nenas.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.
COMMENTS: Represented only by the holotype. Some of the large series of subfossil fragments collected in E Timor by Glover (1986) may be this species. Phylogenetic affinities unknown, and possibly not even a member of Rattus (Kitchener et al., 1991 b).
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 661, 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
- Kitchener, Aplin, and Boeadi
- Species
- timorensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rattus timorensis Kitchener, 1991 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Glover, I. 1986. Archaeology in eastern Timor, 1966 - 67. Terra Australis, 11: 1 - 241.
- Kitchener, D. J., K. P. Aplin, and B. Boeadi. 1991 b. A new species of Rattus from Gunung Mutis, South West Timor Island, Indonesia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 15: 445 - 461.