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Description

Uromys macropus exilis

Troughton & Le Souef, 1929b

Aust. Zool. 6: 98. (13 August 1929).

Common name. Giant White-tailed Rat.

Current name. Uromys caudimaculatus caudimaculatus (Krefft, 1867b), following Jackson & Groves (2015).

Holotype. M.4378 by original designation. Female adult, skull (Fig. 47), study skin, originally as body in alc., collected by A. S. Le Souef in September 1928; registered on 7 September 1928.

Condition. Cranium missing both auditory bullae, left auditory capsule is partially detached; left dentary missing distal part of coronoid process; right dentary complete. Study skin: missing scales on c. 1 cm of the proximal end of tail, otherwise in good condition.

Type locality. Hinchinbrook Island, North Qld, Australia.

Comments. Described from a single specimen. Troughton subsequently elevated exilis to species rank, believing that it was “very distinct” from mainland Australian Uromys based on cranial characters (Troughton, 1941 and subsequent editions).

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 pages 380-381, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653, http://zenodo.org/record/5237800

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Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5237900 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5237800 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE4FFB0FFB973351832FFEBFFD5973C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/68F315FF-3FEB-410E-96EC-5F494510F440 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03DD87C8FFDE735D1B8CFA34FEDC90CD (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/209100512 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/231273/taxon/03DD87C8FFDE735D1B8CFA34FEDC90CD.taxon (URL)

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References

  • Krefft, G. 1867 b. Notes on the mammals and birds of Cape York, with descriptions of two new rodents of the genus Hapalotis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 35 (1867): 316-319.
  • Troughton, E. [L. G.] 1941. Furred Animals of Australia. First edition. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. xxvii + 374 pp.