Rattus mordax

Rattus mordax (Thomas, 1904). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 14:398. TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Kumusi River (see Tate, 1951:333, for comments). DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea; Huon Peninsula and both sides of Owen Stanley Range on mainland. Also found in the d'Entrecasteaux Isl, the Louis...

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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 mordax
Huon
Rattus rattus
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7285020
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285020
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Summary:Rattus mordax (Thomas, 1904). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 14:398. TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Kumusi River (see Tate, 1951:333, for comments). DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea; Huon Peninsula and both sides of Owen Stanley Range on mainland. Also found in the d'Entrecasteaux Isl, the Louisiade Arch., and Woodlark Isl in the Trobriand Isis (see map in Taylor et al., 1982:225). SYNONYMS: fergussoniensis. COMMENTS: Originally described by Thomas as a species, mordax has been historically treated as a subspecies of either leucopus, ringens, or ruber until it was reinstated by Taylor et al. (1982). 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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