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Mallomys gunung Flannery, Aplin, Groves, and Adams 1989

Description

Mallomys gunung Flannery, Aplin, Groves, and Adams, 1989. Rec. Aust. Mus., 41:101.

TYPE LOCALITY: New Guinea, Irian Jaya, 2 km E Mt Wilhelmina, 3800 m (see Flannery et al., 1989, for details).

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea, Irian Jaya, Snow Mts; known only from vicinity of the type locality and Mt Carstenz (see map in Flannery et al., 1989:97).

COMMENTS: A very distinctive species known only by a few specimens collected between 2400 and 4000 m.

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 608, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Biodiversity

Family
Muridae
Genus
Mallomys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Flannery, Aplin, Groves, and Adams
Species
gunung
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mallomys gunung Flannery, 1989 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Flannery, T. F., K. Aplin, C. P. Groves, and M. Adams. 1989. Revision of the New Guinean genus Mallomys (Muridae: Rodentia), with descriptions of two new species from subalpine habitats. Records of the Australian Museum, 41: 83 - 105.