Rattus sanila Flannery and White 1991

• 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 sanila; Bismarck; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7285060; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285060

Rattus sanila Flannery and White, 1991. Nat. Geog. Res. Explor., 7:102. TYPE LOCALITY: Bismarck Arch., New Ireland, Balof, site 2. DISTRIBUTION: Apparently endemic to New Ireland. COMMENTS: Represented only by subfossil fragments dated at 3000 before present and older, but may still occur in primary forest, which has not been adequately sampled. Flannery and White (1991) described sanila as a subspecies of R. mordax, but most of the dental measurements of sanila exceed and do not overlap those of even the largest known mordax, suggesting the former to be a separate species, which even Flannery and White acknowledged. 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 659, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353098