Rattus ombirah Fabre, Miguez, Holden, Fitriana, Semiadi, Musser & Helgen, 2024, nom. nov.

• Main Authors: Fabre, Pierre-Henri, Miguez, Roberto Portela, Holden, Mary Ellen, Fitriana, Yuli S., Semiadi, Gono, Musser, Guy G., Helgen, Kristofer M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae; Rattus; Rattus ombirah; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12173759

Rattus ombirah nom. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: F0602F15-9515-428A-89F6-3F003D1EB9C6 Replacement name for Rattus obiensis Fabre, Portela Miguez, Holden, Fitriana, Semiadi, Musser, & Helgen, 2023, a junior homonym of Rattus rattus obiensis Sody, 1941 Holotype . The holotype is MZB 38231, in the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense. See Fabre et al . (2023) for further details. Type locality . The type locality is located on Gunung Sere, in the southwest of the island of Obi (North Maluku Province, Indonesia); see Fabre et al . (2023) for further details. This species is known only from the island of Obi to date. Etymology . The specific name is derived from Ombirah an alternate name for the island of Obi. Published as part of Fabre, Pierre-Henri, Miguez, Roberto Portela, Holden, Mary Ellen, Fitriana, Yuli S., Semiadi, Gono, Musser, Guy G. & Helgen, Kristofer M., 2024, A replacement name for the endemic Rattus (Muridae, Mammalia) of the island of Obi, Indonesia, pp. 131-132 in Records of the Australian Museum 76 (2) on page 132, DOI:10.3853/j.2201-4349.76.2024.1899, http://zenodo.org/record/12172014