Rattus timorensis Kitchener, Aplin, and Boeadi 1991

Rattus timorensis Kitchener, Aplin, and Boeadi, 1991. Rec. West. Aust. Mus., 15:446. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara, Timor, Gunung Mutis, 1900 m, 7 km E Desa Nenas. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. COMMENTS: Represented only by the holotype. Some of the large series of subfo...

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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 timorensis
Rattus rattus
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285085
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Summary:Rattus timorensis Kitchener, Aplin, and Boeadi, 1991. Rec. West. Aust. Mus., 15:446. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara, Timor, Gunung Mutis, 1900 m, 7 km E Desa Nenas. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. COMMENTS: Represented only by the holotype. Some of the large series of subfossil fragments collected in E Timor by Glover (1986) may be this species. Phylogenetic affinities unknown, and possibly not even a member of Rattus (Kitchener et al., 1991 b). 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 661, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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