Rattus mindorensis

Rattus mindorensis (Thomas, 1898). Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 14:402. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines, Mindoro Isl, Mt Dulangan, 5000 ft. DISTRIBUTION: Highlands of Mindoro (Philippines). SYNONYMS: picinus. COMMENTS: Phylogenetically distant from other species of Rattus native to the Philippines (Musser a...

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Bibliographic Details
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 mindorensis
Sunda
Rattus rattus
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7285014
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285014
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Summary:Rattus mindorensis (Thomas, 1898). Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 14:402. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines, Mindoro Isl, Mt Dulangan, 5000 ft. DISTRIBUTION: Highlands of Mindoro (Philippines). SYNONYMS: picinus. COMMENTS: Phylogenetically distant from other species of Rattus native to the Philippines (Musser and Heaney, 1992). Morphologically closely related to Rattus tiomanicus, which is native to Malay Peninsula and islands on the Sunda Shelf, and possibly only an insular variant of that species (Musser and Califia, 1982; Musser and Heaney, 1985). Musser (1977b) explained why picinus is a synonym. 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 655, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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