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Rattus tunneyi
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Rattus tunneyi (Thomas, 1904). Novit. Zool., 11:223.
TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, Mary River.
DISTRIBUTION: Australia; NE and SW Western Australia, Northern Territory, E Queensland, and NE New South Wales. Also recorded from offshore islands. Extant range vastly reduced from former distribution (see map in Taylor and Horner, 1973:89, and discussion in Watts and Aslin, 1981).
SYNONYMS: apex, austrinus, culmorum, dispar, melvilleus, vallesius, woodwardi.
COMMENTS: This species hybridized in the laboratory with R. colletti (Baverstock et al., 1983a, 1986).
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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References
- 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.
- Watts, C. H. S., and H. J. Aslin. 1981. The rodents of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 321 pp.
- Baverstock, P. R., M. Gelder, and A. Jahnke. 1983 a. Chromosome evolution in Australian Rattus- - G-banding and hybrid meiosis. Genetica, 60: 93 - 103.