Melomys cervinipes
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Description
Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852). Mamm. Aust., pt. 4, 3:pl. 14.
TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Queensland, Stradbrook Isl.
DISTRIBUTION: Australia; extant range is closed forest and more open habitat along the E Australian coast from Cooktown region of Cape York in Queensland south to Gosford area of New South Wales (Watts and Aslin, 1981:79). Late Pleistocene specimens indicated distribution once extended farther south to the Pyramids Cave region in Victoria (Wakefield, 1972a).
SYNONYMS: banfieldi, bunya, eboreus, limicauda, pallidus.
COMMENTS: Anatomy of male reproductive tract and spermatozoa reported by Breed and Sarafis (1978), Morrissey and Breed (1982), and Breed (1984, 1986). Chromosomal morphology, G-banding homologies, and results of electrophoretic analyses presented by Baverstock et al. (1977 c, 1980, 1981, 1983b), who (1980) reported that M. cervinipes was phylogenetically close to M. capensis, but electrophoretically distant, having experienced a rapid rate of electrophoretic evolution relative to that found in M. capensis and M. burtoni.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Melomys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gould
- Species
- cervinipes
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Watts, C. H. S., and H. J. Aslin. 1981. The rodents of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 321 pp.
- Wakefield, N. A. 1972 a. Palaeoecology of fossil mammal assemblages from some Australian caves. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 85: 1 - 26.
- Breed, W. G., and V. Sarafis. 1978. On the phylogenetic significance of spermatozoal morphology and male reproductive tract anatomy in Australian rodents. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 103: 127 - 135.
- Morrissey, B. L., and W. G. Breed. 1982. Variation in external morphology of the glans penis of Australian native rodents. Australian Journal of Zoology, 30: 495 - 502.
- Breed, W. G. 1984. Sperm head structure in the Hydromyinae (Rodentia: Muridae): A further evolutionary development of the subacrosomal space in mammals. Gamete Research, 10: 31 - 44.
- Baverstock, P. R., C. H. S. Watts, and J. T. Hogarth. 1977 c. Chromosome evolution in Australian rodents. I. The Pseudomyinae, the Hydromyinae and the Uromys / Melomys group. Chromosoma, 61: 95 - 125.
- Tate, C. M., J. F. Pagels, and C. O. Handley, Jr. 1980. Distribution and systematic relationship of two kinds of short-tailed shrews (Soricidae: Blarina) in south-central Virginia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 93: 50 - 60.