Rattus browni subsp. aitape Troughton 1937
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Description
Rattus browni aitape Troughton, 1937a
Rec. Aust. Mus. 20(2): 122. (27 August 1937).
Common name. Pacific Rat.
Current name. Rattus exulans browni (Alston, 1877), following Taylor et al. (1982) and Musser & Carleton (2005).
Holotype. M.3721 by original designation. Adult female, skull, study skin, collected and presented by Mr R. F. Armstrong in 1925, registered November 1925.
Condition. Cranium missing anterior tip of left nasal bone, otherwise complete; both dentaries complete. Study skin: two bald patches on the rump.
Type locality. Aitape, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
Comments. The description appears to be based on the holotype alone, though the number of specimens in the type series is not stated. Four juveniles with the same data as the holotype are registered under the one number, M.3722. Juvenile characters were not mentioned in the description and these are treated here as referred specimens rather than paratypes.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Rattus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Troughton
- Species
- aitape
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rattus browni subsp. aitape Troughton, 1937 sec. Parnaby, Ingleby & Divljan, 2017
References
- Troughton, E. L. G. 1937 a. Descriptions of some New Guinea mammals. Records of the Australian Museum 20 (2): 117 - 127. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.20.1937.254
- Alston, E. R. 1877. On the rodents and marsupials collected by Rev. G. Brown in Duke-of-York Island, New Britain, and New Ireland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 45 (1877): 123 - 127, pls xviii + xix.
- 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 (3): 177 - 336.