Bunomys andrewsi J. A. Allen 1911
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Bunomys andrewsi J. A. Allen 1911
Bunomys andrewsi J. A. Allen 1911, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 30: 366.
Type Locality: Indonesia, NE Sulawesi, Buton Isl.
Vernacular Names: Andrew's Bunomys.
Synonyms: Bunomys adspersus (Miller and Hollister 1921); Bunomys heinrichi (Tate and Archbold 1935); Bunomys inferior (Tate and Archbold 1935).
Distribution: Sulawesi; central core, SE and SW peninsulas; primarily found in lowland tropical evergreen rainforest but reaches lower montane rainforest in some places.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as B. heinrichi, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Bunomys fratrorum Group. Recognized as a distinct species in a " Rattus chrysocomus Group" (Tate, 1936; Ellerman, 1941), then in a " coelestis group" of Rattus (Ellerman, 1949 a), subsequently treated as member of subgenus Rattus (Laurie and Hill, 1954), and currently included in Bunomys (Musser, 1981 c; Musser and Newcomb, 1983). In morphology and pelage features, B. andrewsi is most closely related to B. fratrorum of the NW peninsula and B. penitus in the central core and SE peninsula. The taxon heinrichi has been treated as a species (Musser, 1991; Musser and Holden, 1991; Musser and Carleton, 1993), although originally described as a subspecies of Rattus penitus and listed that way by Ellerman in 1941; later arranged as a subspecies of Rattus adspersus (Ellerman, 1949 a; Laurie and Hill, 1954), or included within Bunomys penitus (Musser, 1981 c; Musser and Newcomb, 1983) or Frateromys penitus (Sody, 1941). Karyotype summarized by Rickart and Musser (1993). Considerable geographic variation in craniodental measurements typifies B. andrewsi, but its significance will have to be determined by study of larger samples from more localities than are currently available.
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- J. A. Allen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Bunomys
- Species
- andrewsi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bunomys andrewsi Allen, 1911 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Tate, G. H. H., and R. Archbold. 1935. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 3. Twelve apparently new forms of Muridae other than Rattus from the Indo-Australian region. American Museum Novitates, 803: 1 - 9.
- Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.
- Ellerman, J. R. 1949 a. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. III, Appendix II [Notes on the rodents from Madagascar in the British Museum, and on a collection from the island obtained by Mr. C. S. Webb]. British Museum (Natural History), London, 210 pp.
- Laurie, E. M. O., and J. E. Hill. 1954. List of land mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and adjacent islands 1758 - 1952. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 175 pp.
- Musser, G. G. 1981 c. The giant rat of Flores and its relatives east of Borneo and Bali. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 169: 67 - 176.
- Musser, G. G., and C. Newcomb. 1983. Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 174: 327 - 598.
- Musser, G. G., and M. E. Holden. 1991. Sulawesi rodents (Muridae: Murinae): Morphological and geographical boundaries of species in the Rattus hoffmanni group and a new species from Pulau Peleng. Pp. 322 - 413, in Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman (T. A. Griffiths and D. Klingener, eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 206: 1 - 432.
- Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp.
- Sody, H. J. V. 1941. On a collection of rats from the Indo- Malayan and Indo- Australian regions (with descriptions of 43 new genera, species and subspecies). Treubia, 18: 255 - 325.
- Rickart, E. A., and G. G. Musser. 1993. Philippine rodents: Chromosomal characteristics and their significance for phylogenetic inference among 13 species (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae). American Museum Novitates, 3064: 1 - 34.