Rattus mollicomulus Tate and Archbold 1935

• 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 mollicomulus; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285016; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFF6CFF21FF1D0235FD9DF557

Rattus mollicomulus Tate and Archbold, 1935. Am. Mus. Novit., 802:4. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Sulawesi, SW Sulawesi, Gunung Lampobatang, Wawokaraeng, 1500 m. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the upper slopes of Gunung Lampobatang, Sulawesi; distribution is concordant with Paruromys ursinus (Musser and Holden, 1991). COMMENTS: Morphological and distributional limits outlined by Musser and Holden (1991), who also provided a history of past allocations of the name. Closest relative is R. hoffmanni , which occurs in lowlands of the SW peninsula and throughout the rest of 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 655, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098