Crossomys moncktoni Thomas 1907
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Crossomys moncktoni Thomas 1907
Crossomys moncktoni Thomas 1907, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 20: 71.
Type Locality: New Guinea, SE Papua New Guinea, Central Province, Brown River, Serigina, 4500 ft (1370 m).
Vernacular Names: Earless New Guinea Water Rat.
Distribution: Papua New Guinea; known only from Papua New Guinea Central Cordillera and mountains on Huon Peninsula, 1000-2700 m (Flannery, 1990 b:191, 1995 a).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Flannery (1990 b, 1995 b) provided photographs and summaries of distributional and biological information for this amphibious rat. Chromosomal data reported by Donnellan (1987). Comparisons with Hydromys habbema, Neotropical ichthyomyines, and other small, semiaquatic carnivorous mammals made by Voss (1988). Leary and Seri (1997) reported specimens from Mt. Sisa in the Central Cordillera. Crossomys moncktoni is part of a cluster of Old Endemics apparently confined to E New Guinea (the others are Leptomys elegans, L. ernstmayeri, L. signatus, Pseudohydromys fuscus, P. murinus, Abeomelomys sevia, all species of Chiruromys, Hyomys goliath, Protochromys fellowsi, Melomys dollmani, Paramelomys gressitti, P. levipes, P. moncktoni, Pogonomelomys bruijni, and Pogonomys championi).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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References
- Flannery, T. F. 1990 b. Mammals of New Guinea. Robert Brown and Associates, 439 pp.
- Fox, B. J. 1995 b. Pilliga mouse, Pseudomys pilligaensis. Pp. 616 - 617, in Mammals of Australia (R. Strahan, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 756 pp.
- Donnellan, S. C. 1987. Phylogenetic relationships of New Guinean rodents (Rodentia, Muridae) based on chromosomes. Australian Mammalogy, 12: 61 - 67.
- Voss, R. S. 1988. Systematics and ecology of ichthyomyine rodents (Muroidea): Patterns of morphological evolution in a small adaptive radiation. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 188: 259 - 493.
- Leary, T., and L. Seri. 1997. An annotated checklist of mammals recorded in the Kikori River Basin, Papua New Guinea. Science in New Guinea, 23 (2): 79 - 100.