Rattus montanus Phillips 1932
Rattus montanus Phillips, 1932. Ceylon J. Sci., Sec. B, 16:323. TYPE LOCALITY: Sri Lanka (Ceylon), West Haputale, Ohiya, 6000 ft. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, Horton Plains at 7000 ft, and Nuwara Eliya at 6000 ft in primary montane forests of Central and Uva Provinces of Sri Lank...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:7285018 2023-05-15T18:05:17+02:00 Rattus montanus Phillips 1932 Guy G. Musser Michael D. Carleton 1993-12-31 https://zenodo.org/record/7285018 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285018 unknown Smithsonian Institution Press info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFF6DFF20FF0E0A23FC7EFD1D doi:10.5281/zenodo.7353098 http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 doi:10.5281/zenodo.7285017 https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit https://zenodo.org/record/7285018 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285018 oai:zenodo.org:7285018 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Chordata Mammalia Rodentia Muridae Rattus Rattus montanus info:eu-repo/semantics/other publication-taxonomictreatment 1993 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.728501810.5281/zenodo.735309810.5281/zenodo.7285017 2023-03-10T15:44:17Z Rattus montanus Phillips, 1932. Ceylon J. Sci., Sec. B, 16:323. TYPE LOCALITY: Sri Lanka (Ceylon), West Haputale, Ohiya, 6000 ft. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, Horton Plains at 7000 ft, and Nuwara Eliya at 6000 ft in primary montane forests of Central and Uva Provinces of Sri Lanka (Phillips, 1980). COMMENTS: A montane endemic on Sri Lanka and morphologically so unlike most other species of Rattus it may not belong in same genus, despite assertion of one author that it is nothing more than a large form of R. rattus (see Musser, 1986:22). Like R. annandalei, R. hoogerwerfi, R. korinchi, R. macleari, R. nativitatis, and members of the R. xanthurus group, the Ceylon endemic seems isolated within present morphological boundaries of Rattus (Musser, 1986). 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 656, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353098 Other/Unknown Material Rattus rattus Zenodo |
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Rattus montanus Phillips, 1932. Ceylon J. Sci., Sec. B, 16:323. TYPE LOCALITY: Sri Lanka (Ceylon), West Haputale, Ohiya, 6000 ft. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, Horton Plains at 7000 ft, and Nuwara Eliya at 6000 ft in primary montane forests of Central and Uva Provinces of Sri Lanka (Phillips, 1980). COMMENTS: A montane endemic on Sri Lanka and morphologically so unlike most other species of Rattus it may not belong in same genus, despite assertion of one author that it is nothing more than a large form of R. rattus (see Musser, 1986:22). Like R. annandalei, R. hoogerwerfi, R. korinchi, R. macleari, R. nativitatis, and members of the R. xanthurus group, the Ceylon endemic seems isolated within present morphological boundaries of Rattus (Musser, 1986). 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 656, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353098 |
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