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Rattus hoogerwerfi Chasen 1939

Description

Rattus hoogerwerfi Chasen, 1939. Treubia, 17(3):496.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, W Sumatra, Aceh, Gunung Leuser, Blang Kedjeren, 2900 ft.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from between 2900 and 9300 ft in foothills and upper slopes of Gunung Leuser, Sumatra (see map in Musser, 1986).

COMMENTS: Very distinctive and possibly not a member of Rattus. Morphology and comparisons with other species documented by Musser and Newcomb (1983) and Musser (1986). Although phylogenetic affinities with species of Rattus from Sulawesi, the Philippines, and Christmas Island have been claimed by Miller (1942), and with R. korinchi by Chasen (1939), no compelling evidence links R. hoogerwerfi with any other species (Musser, 1986).

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 653, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Biodiversity

Family
Muridae
Genus
Rattus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Chasen
Species
hoogerwerfi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rattus hoogerwerfi Chasen, 1939 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.
  • Miller, G. S., Jr. 1942. Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition, 1936 - 1939. Part V. Mammals collected by Frederick A. Ulmer, Jr. on Sumatra and Nias. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 94: 107 - 165.
  • Chasen, F. N. 1939. Two new mammals from North Sumatra. Treubia, 17: 207 - 208.