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Rattus mollicomulus Tate and Archbold 1935
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Rattus mollicomulus Tate and Archbold 1935
Rattus mollicomulus Tate and Archbold 1935, Am. Mus. Novit., 802: 4.
Type Locality: Indonesia, Sulawesi, SW Sulawesi, Gunung Lampobatang, Wawokaraeng, 1500 m.
Vernacular Names: Lampobatang Sulawesi Rat.
Distribution: Known only from higher slopes of Gunung Lampobatang, Sulawesi (Musser and Holden, 1991).
Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.
Discussion: Rattus rattus species group. Morphological and distributional limits outlined by Musser and Holden (1991), who also provided past historical allocations of the name. Closest relative is R. hoffmanni, which occurs in lowlands of the SW peninsula and throughout the rest of Sulawesi (see that account).
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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 1475, 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)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/16E017D8EE8F69F702060B53E32049B4 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231540080 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Tate and Archbold
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Rattus
- Species
- mollicomulus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rattus mollicomulus and, 1935 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Tate, G. H. H., and R. Archbold. 1935. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 3. Twelve apparently new forms of Muridae other than Rattus from the Indo-Australian region. American Museum Novitates, 803: 1 - 9.
- 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.