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Rattus browni subsp. gawae Troughton 1945

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Rattus browni gawae Troughton, 1945

Rec. Aust. Mus. 21(6): 374. (25 June 1945).

Common name. Pacific Rat.

Current name. Rattus exulans browni (Alston, 1877), following Taylor et al. (1982) and Musser & Carleton (2005).

Holotype. M.6370, by original designation. Female, subadult, skull, study skin, collected on 27 July 1937 by Lieut.-Commander W. H. Harrington, registered on 18 November 1937.

Condition. Cranium with hole in right auditory bulla; both dentaries complete. Study skin: bald patch on left side of rump.

Type locality. Gawa Island atoll, Marshall Bennett Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.

Comments. Description apparently based on the holotype only. Troughton gave no indication of other specimens in a type series and we have found no other Rattus from Gawa Island in the AM database. Troughton believed the holotype to be an adult female but Taylor et al. (1982) considered it to be a juvenile female.

Notes

Published as part of Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 277-420 in Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5) on page 372, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653, http://zenodo.org/record/5237800

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Biodiversity

Collection code
AM
Family
Muridae
Genus
Rattus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Troughton
Species
gawae
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Rattus browni subsp. gawae Troughton, 1945 sec. Parnaby, Ingleby & Divljan, 2017

References

  • Troughton, E. L. G. 1945. Diagnoses of new mammals from the South-West Pacific. Records of the Australian Museum 21 (6): 373 - 376. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.21.1945.551
  • 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.