Rattus praetor subsp. mediocris Troughton 1936
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Description
Rattus praetor mediocris Troughton, 1936a
Rec. Aust. Mus. 19(5): 343. (7 April 1936).
Common name. Large New Guinea Spiny Rat.
Current name. Rattus praetor praetor (Thomas, 1888b), following Taylor et al. (1982) and Musser & Carleton (2005).
Holotype. M.5761 by original designation. Male, [Field no. 214], skull, study skin, collected by Rev. J. B. Poncelet, collection date not given, registered 27 December 1934.
Condition. Cranium missing right side of occipital area, detached right auditory capsule, missing jugal bone of left zygomatic arch; both dentaries complete. Study skin, missing tail tip.
Type locality. Buin, Bougainville Island, North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea.
Paratypes. (2, by original designation). M.5759, skull, study skin; M.5760, body in alc., both males, details as per holotype.
Comments. Type series appears to be limited to the three specimens listed above. No other specimens with similar collection details are included in the AM specimen database.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AM
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Rattus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Troughton
- Species
- mediocris
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rattus praetor subsp. mediocris Troughton, 1936 sec. Parnaby, Ingleby & Divljan, 2017
References
- Thomas, O. 1888 b. Diagnoses of six new mammals from the Solomon Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) 1: 155 - 158. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938809460693
- 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.