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Melomys bougainville Troughton 1936
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Melomys bougainville Troughton 1936
Melomys bougainville Troughton 1936, Rec. Aust. Mus., 19: 344.
Type Locality: Solomon Isls, Bougainville Isl, Buin.
Vernacular Names: Bougainville Island Melomys.
Distribution: Recorded only from islands of Buka, Bougainville, and Choiseul in northern Solomon Arch. (Flannery and Wickler, 1990; Flannery, 1995 b).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).
Discussion: Although historically treated as a subspecies of M. rufescens, M. bougainville is a separate species known by small samples of extant and archaeological specimens (Flannery and Wickler, 1990). Most closely related to M. rufescens, M. matambuai, and M. paveli (Helgen, 2003 b; Menzies, 1996).
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 1375, 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/04F3E7D00D15E30B48DCE96FA5A8E26D (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231540212 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Troughton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Melomys
- Species
- bougainville
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melomys bougainville Troughton, 1936 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Troughton, E. L. G. 1936. A redescription of Solomys (" Mus ") salamonis Ramsay. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 61: 3 - 4.
- Flannery, T. F., and S. Wickler. 1990. Quaternary murids (Rodentia: Muridae) from Buka Island, Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of two new species. Australian Mammalogy, 13: 127 - 139.
- Helgen, K. M. 2003 b. A review of the rodent fauna of Seram, Moluccas, with the description of a new subspecies of mosaic-tailed rat, Melomys rufescens paveli. Journal of Zoology, London, 261: 165 - 172.
- Menzies, J. I. 1996. A systematic revision of Melomys (Rodentia: Muridae) of New Guinea. Australian Journal of Zoology, 44: 367 - 426.