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Chiruromys lamia Thomas 1897
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Chiruromys lamia Thomas 1897
Chiruromys lamia Thomas 1897, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 18: 615.
Type Locality: Papua New Guinea, Central Province, lower Kemp Welch River, Ighibirei (see Thomas, 1897 a:4, for details).
Vernacular Names: Broad-headed Chiruromys.
Synonyms: Chiruromys kagi (Tate 1951).
Distribution: Mainland Papua New Guinea; known only from the Owen Stanley Range in SE Papua, from 1200 to 2300 m (Flannery, 1995 a; specimens in AMNH, BMNH).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Occurs in the same general mainland region as C. forbesi, but replaces it at higher elevations. Specimens and habitat on eastern flanks of Mount Dayman discussed by Cole et al. (1997).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 1189-1531 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1304, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A2267A57FF8A65DA07E1D2E970F9422A (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/CA9805C70F179F38B6FB7A1B19EB5BDE (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231539882 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Chiruromys
- Species
- lamia
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chiruromys lamia Thomas, 1897 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Thomas, O. 1897 a. On the mammals collected in British New Guinea by Dr. Lamberto Loria. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, ser. 2, 18: 1 - 19.
- Tate, G. H. H. 1951. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 65. The rodents of Australia and New Guinea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 97: 183 - 430.
- Cole, R. E., A. Engilis, Jr., and F. J. Radovsky. 1997. Report on mammals collected during the Bishop Museum Expedition to Mt. Dayman, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, 51: 1 - 36.