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Rattus hainaldi Kitchener, How, and Maharadatunkamsi 1991

Description

Rattus hainaldi Kitchener, How, and Maharadatunkamsi 1991

Rattus hainaldi Kitchener, How, and Maharadatunkamsi 1991, Rec. West. Aust. Mus., 15: 557.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara, Pulau Flores, Gunung Ranakah, 1300 m, above Kampong Robo, Desa Longko, 8 km SSE Ruteng.

Vernacular Names: Hainald's Flores Island Rat.

Distribution: Known only from Flores Isl.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Rattus species group unresolved. Described from two specimens (Kitchener et al., 1991 c), and later found to be common in forest habitats (Kitchener and Yani, 1998; Kitchener et al., 1998). Phylogenetic affinities uncertain; placement in Rattus originally provisional (Kitchener et al., 1991), results from albumin immunology suggest transfer to either Bunomys or Komodomys (Watts and Baverstock, 1994 b), but electrophoretic data indicate R. hainaldi to be equidistant from the Komodomys-Rattus timorensis clade of Nusa Tenggara clade and true Rattus (K. Aplin, in litt., 2004).

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 1471, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kitchener, How, and Maharadatunkamsi
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Muridae
Genus
Rattus
Species
hainaldi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rattus hainaldi Kitchener, 1991 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Kitchener, D. J., and Maharadatunkamsi. 1991. Description of a new species of Cynopterus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) from Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 15: 307 - 363.
  • Kitchener, D. J., R. A. How, and Maharadatunkamsi. 1991 c. A new species of Rattus from the mountains of West Flores, Indonesia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 15: 611 - 626.
  • Watts, C. H. S., and P. R. Baverstock. 1994 b. Evolution in some South-east Asian Murinae (Rodentia), as assessed by microcomplement fixation of albumin, and their relationship to Australian murines. Australian Journal of Zoology, 42: 711 - 722.