Rattus foramineus Sody 1941

• Main Authors: Guy G. Musser, Michael D. Carleton
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae; Rattus; Rattus foramineus; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284975; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFF61FF2CFEFB0321F9E6F601

Rattus foramineus Sody, 1941. Treubia, 18:308. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, SW Sulawesi, Bulukumba. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from a few localities on coastal lowlands near the end of the SW peninsula of Sulawesi. COMMENTS: Sody described pelurus from Pulau Peleng as a subspecies of R. foramineus, but the Peleng Isl rat is a distinct species (Musser and Holden, 1991). Rattus foramineus is represented only by four modern specimens (Sody, 1941) and subfossil fragments (Musser, 1984; Musser and Holden, 1991). Laurie and Hill (1954) listed R. foramineus as incertae sedis, but Musser (1984) treated it as a subspecies of R. xanthurus , and Musser and Holden (1991) considered it to be a species most closely related to R. bontanus , which replaces it on slopes of Gunung Lampobatang, Sulawesi. 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 652, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098