Published December 31, 1993
| Version v1
Taxonomic treatment
Open
Hydromys E. Geoffroy 1804
Creators
Description
Hydromys E. Geoffroy, 1804. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 3(93):353.
TYPE SPECIES: Hydromys chrysogaster E. Geoffroy, 1804.
SYNONYMS: Baiyankamys.
COMMENTS: Member of the Australian and New Guinea Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c:167). Comparisons with Neotropical ichthyomyines made by Voss (1988). Flannery (1990b) provided photographs and distributional and biological summaries of species. Phallic morphology of H. chrysogaster and H. habbema described by Lidicker (1968). Mahoney (1968) explained why Baiyankamys is a synonym of Hydromys.
Notes
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 597, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
Files
Files
(949 Bytes)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:72f945f2facebfbe06bdaff60ebda144
|
949 Bytes | Download |
System files
(7.8 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:c1edb61537a1083a4fd1f3f32ee2a5c1
|
7.8 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Hydromys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- E. Geoffroy
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hydromys Geoffroy, 1804 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Musser, G. G. 1981 c. The giant rat of Flores and its relatives east of Borneo and Bali. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 169: 67 - 176.
- Voss, R. S. 1988. Systematics and ecology of ichthyomyine rodents (Muroidea): Patterns of morphological evolution in a small adaptive radiation. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 188: 259 - 493.
- Flannery, T. F. 1990 b. Mammals of New Guinea. Robert Brown and Associates, 439 pp.
- Mahoney, J. A. 1968. Baiyankamys Hinton, 1943 (Muridae, Hydromyinae) a New Guinea rodent genus named for an incorrectly associated skin and skull (Hydromyinae, Hydromys) and mandible (Murinae, Rattus). Mammalia, 32: 64 - 71.