Rattus nativitatis
Rattus nativitatis (Thomas, 1889). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888:533 [1889]. TYPE LOCALITY: Christmas Isl (Australia). DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to Christmas Isl, 320 km south of Java in the Indian Ocean; suspected to be extinct by 1908 (Andrews, 1909) and is now considered extinct (Flannery, 1990c). COM...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:7285026 2023-05-15T18:05:26+02:00 Rattus nativitatis Guy G. Musser Michael D. Carleton 1993-12-31 https://zenodo.org/record/7285026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285026 unknown Smithsonian Institution Press info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFF6DFF20FF0A0E7DFA39F7E4 doi:10.5281/zenodo.7353098 http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 doi:10.5281/zenodo.7285025 https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit https://zenodo.org/record/7285026 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285026 oai:zenodo.org:7285026 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Chordata Mammalia Rodentia Muridae Rattus Rattus nativitatis info:eu-repo/semantics/other publication-taxonomictreatment 1993 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.728502610.5281/zenodo.735309810.5281/zenodo.7285025 2023-03-10T15:44:17Z Rattus nativitatis (Thomas, 1889). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888:533 [1889]. TYPE LOCALITY: Christmas Isl (Australia). DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to Christmas Isl, 320 km south of Java in the Indian Ocean; suspected to be extinct by 1908 (Andrews, 1909) and is now considered extinct (Flannery, 1990c). COMMENTS: For Thomas (1888b), the morphology of R. nativitatis distanced it from any other described species of Rattus. Ellerman (1941) first listed the species as the only member of the " nativitatis " group in subgenus Rattus, then placed it and R. macleari in same group within subgenus Stenomys of Rattus (Ellerman, 1949a). Chasen (1940) thought R. nativitatis to be without close relatives in Malaysia, but Misonne (1969) placed it close to rajah in the subgenus Leopoldamys of Rattus, an allocation rejected by Musser (1981 b) and Musser and Newcomb (1983). Three hypotheses about phylogenetic position of R. nativitatis require testing: 1. It is more closely related to R. macleari , the other endemic on Christmas Island than to any other species of Rattus; 2. It is not related to R. macleari but to other species in the genus or is phylogenetically isolated; 3. It is not even a member of Rattus. 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 Indian |
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Rattus nativitatis (Thomas, 1889). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888:533 [1889]. TYPE LOCALITY: Christmas Isl (Australia). DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to Christmas Isl, 320 km south of Java in the Indian Ocean; suspected to be extinct by 1908 (Andrews, 1909) and is now considered extinct (Flannery, 1990c). COMMENTS: For Thomas (1888b), the morphology of R. nativitatis distanced it from any other described species of Rattus. Ellerman (1941) first listed the species as the only member of the " nativitatis " group in subgenus Rattus, then placed it and R. macleari in same group within subgenus Stenomys of Rattus (Ellerman, 1949a). Chasen (1940) thought R. nativitatis to be without close relatives in Malaysia, but Misonne (1969) placed it close to rajah in the subgenus Leopoldamys of Rattus, an allocation rejected by Musser (1981 b) and Musser and Newcomb (1983). Three hypotheses about phylogenetic position of R. nativitatis require testing: 1. It is more closely related to R. macleari , the other endemic on Christmas Island than to any other species of Rattus; 2. It is not related to R. macleari but to other species in the genus or is phylogenetically isolated; 3. It is not even a member of Rattus. 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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