Rattus marmosurus Thomas 1921
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Rattus marmosurus Thomas 1921
Rattus marmosurus Thomas 1921, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 7: 246.
Type Locality: Indonesia, NE Sulawesi, Minahassa, Gunung Masarang, 2000 ft (610 m).
Vernacular Names: Marmoset Xanthurus Rat.
Synonyms: Rattus facetus Miller and Hollister 1921; Rattus tondanus Sody 1932.
Distribution: Northern arm and central core of Sulawesi. Absent from SE peninsula where it is replaced by R. salocco and SW peninsula where R. bontanus occurs. Altitudinal range, lowlands to mountain summits in a variety of forest formations.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Rattus xanthurus species group. Although marmosurus has been listed as a subspecies of R. xanthurus (Ellerman, 1941; Laurie and Hill, 1954), most researchers besides Thomas have recognized its specific uniqueness (Misonne, 1969; Musser, 1971 e, 1984; Musser and Holden, 1991; Sody, 1941; Tate, 1936). Furthermore, the two are sympatric in NE Sulawesi (Musser, 1971 e). Sody (1941) questionably included marmosurus in Taeromys, but it is a member of the Rattus xanthurus group. Musser (1971 e) explained why tondanus, from the NE arm, is a synonym; facetus is based on a juvenile from the central core of the island. Musser and Carleton (1993) confined the species to NE region of the northern peninsula of Sulawesi, but recent morphometric analyses unequivocally indicate that it is R. xanthurus that is restricted to the NE arm and R. marmosurus that has the wider distribution on the island (Musser, ms).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Rattus
- Species
- marmosurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rattus marmosurus Thomas, 1921 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.
- Laurie, E. M. O., and J. E. Hill. 1954. List of land mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and adjacent islands 1758 - 1952. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 175 pp.
- Misonne, X. 1969. African and Indo-Australian Muridae: Evolutionary trends. Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Serie IN- 8, Sciences Zoologiques, 172: 1 - 219.
- Musser, G. G. 1971 e. The taxonomic status of Rattus tondanus Sody and notes on the holotypes of R. beccarii (Jentink) and R. thysanurus Sody (Rodentia: Muridae). Zoologische Mededelingen uitgegeven door het Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden, 45: 147 - 157.
- Musser, G. G., and M. E. Holden. 1991. Sulawesi rodents (Muridae: Murinae): Morphological and geographical boundaries of species in the Rattus hoffmanni group and a new species from Pulau Peleng. Pp. 322 - 413, in Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman (T. A. Griffiths and D. Klingener, eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 206: 1 - 432.
- Sody, H. J. V. 1941. On a collection of rats from the Indo- Malayan and Indo- Australian regions (with descriptions of 43 new genera, species and subspecies). Treubia, 18: 255 - 325.
- Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp.