Margaretamys Musser 1981
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Margaretamys Musser 1981
Margaretamys Musser 1981, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 168 (3): 275.
Type Species: Mus beccarii Jentink 1880
Species and subspecies: 3 species:
Species Margaretamys beccarii (Jentink 1880)
Species Margaretamys elegans Musser 1981
Species Margaretamys parvus Musser 1981
Discussion: Pithecheir Division. Morphological, chromosomal, and distributional features monographed by Musser (1981 b). Spermatozoal morphology distinctive and similar among the three species (Breed and Musser, 1991). Member of the Sulawesi Old Endemics (Musser, 1981 c); nearest phylogenetic ally unknown, but probably more closely related to Sulawesi Lenomys and Eropeplus and Sundaic Lenothrix than any other murine (Musser’s unpublished research): "Possibly the three species of Margaretamys represent fragments of an early murid stock of which Lenothrix is a more primitive remnant" (Musser, 1981 b:325). Pavlinov et al. (1995 a) listed Margaretamys in a Pithecheir Section of a more inclusive Micromys Group. All three species of Margaretamys are arboreal and found only in primary forest formations.
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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/E997AA4E5422782FE90D25AFB404B861 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231539556 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Musser
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Margaretamys
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Margaretamys Musser, 1981 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Musser, G. G. 1981 b. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 105. Notes on systematics of Indo-Malayan murid rodents, and descriptions of new genera and species from Ceylon, Sulawesi, and the Philippines. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 168: 225 - 334.
- Breed, W. G., and G. G. Musser. 1991. Sulawesi and Philippine rodents (Muridae): A survey of spermatozoal morphology and its significance for phylogenetic inference. American Museum Novitates, 3003: 1 - 15.
- 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.
- Pavlinov, I. Ya, E. L. Yakhontov, and A. K. Agadzhanyan. 1995 a. [Mammals of Eurasia. I. Rodentia. Taxonomic and geographic guide.] Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 32: 289 pp. (in Russian).