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Mus crociduroides
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Mus crociduroides (Robinson and Kloss, 1916). J. Str. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc., 73:271
TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, W Sumatra, Korinchi Peak, 10,000 ft.
DISTRIBUTION: Upper montane rain forest in mountain chain along W Sumatra.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Coelomys. A distinct montane species endemic to the mountains of W Sumatra (Musser, 1986; Musser and Newcomb, 1983). Listed by Chasen (1940) as a species of Mycteromys, which also contained the Javan M. vulcani, the closest relative of M. crociduroides.
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 623, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Mus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Robinson and Kloss
- Species
- crociduroides
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mus crociduroides (and, 1916) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Musser, G. G., and C. Newcomb. 1983. Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 174: 327 - 598.
- Chasen, F. N. 1940. A handlist of Malaysian mammals: A systematic list of the mammals of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, including the adjacent small islands. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 15: 1 - 209.