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Uromys lamington Troughton 1937
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Uromys lamington Troughton 1937a
Rec. Aust. Mus. 20 (2): 126. (27 August 1937).
Common name. Mottled-tailed Giant Rat.
Current name. Uromys caudimaculatus papuanus (Ramsay, 1883), following Jackson & Groves (2015).
Holotype. M.4684 by original designation. Male, [Field no. 65], skull, study skin, collected and presented by Mr C. T. McNamara during 1929, registered September 1929.
Condition. Cranium and left dentary complete; incomplete right dentary missing part of the coronoid process. Study skin: bald patch on the dorsal surface behind the right ear, otherwise complete and in good condition.
Type locality. Mount Lamington district, Northern Province, Papua New Guinea.
Comments. Description apparently based on one specimen.
Notes
Published as part of Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 277-420 in Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5) on page 380, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653, http://zenodo.org/record/5237800
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- Troughton, E. L. G. 1937 a. Descriptions of some New Guinea mammals. Records of the Australian Museum 20 (2): 117 - 127. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.20.1937.254
- Ramsay, E. P. 1883. Contributions to the zoology of New Guinea, Part VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (series 1) 8 (1): 15 - 29, pl. 11.