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Pogonomelomys bruijni

Description

Pogonomelomys bruijni (Peters and Doria 1876)

[Pogonomelomys] bruijni (Peters and Doria 1876), Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 8: 336.

Type Locality: W New Guinea, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), Pulau Salawati, off W coast of Vogelkop.

Vernacular Names: Bruijn's Pogonomelomys.

Synonyms: Pogonomelomys brassi Tate and Archbold 1941.

Distribution: New Guinea; known only by 11 specimens from type locality and Vogelkop mainland in Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya); lower Fly River, and low altitudes on Mt Bosavi and Mt Sisa in Papua New Guinea; not recorded higher than about 60 m (Menzies, 1990; Flannery, 1995 a:312).

Conservation: IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: The lowland, larger-bodied morphological and phylogenetic counterpart of the highland P. mayeri. Aplin et al. (1999) reported material of this species from late Pleistocene to mid-Holocene archaeological sites on the Ayamaru Plateau, central Bird’s Head Peninsula of Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya).

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 1440, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Peters and Doria
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Muridae
Genus
Pogonomelomys
Species
bruijni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pogonomelomys bruijni (and, 1876) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Tate, G. H. H., and R. Archbold. 1941. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 31. New rodents and marsupials from New Guinea. American Museum Novitates, 1101: 1 - 9.
  • Menzies, J. I. 1990. A systematic revision of Pogonomelomys (Rodentia: Muridae) of New Guinea. Science in New Guinea, 16: 118 - 137.
  • Aplin, K. P., J. M. Pasveer, and W. E. Boles. 1999. Late Quaternary vertebrates fom the Bird's Head Peninsula, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, including descriptions of two previously unknown marsupial species. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement No. 57: 351 - 387.