Rattus tunneyi

Rattus tunneyi (Thomas, 1904). Novit. Zool., 11:223. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, Mary River. DISTRIBUTION: Australia; NE and SW Western Australia, Northern Territory, E Queensland, and NE New South Wales. Also recorded from offshore islands. Extant range vastly reduced from former...

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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 tunneyi
Queensland
Rattus rattus
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7285099
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7285099
Description
Summary:Rattus tunneyi (Thomas, 1904). Novit. Zool., 11:223. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, Mary River. DISTRIBUTION: Australia; NE and SW Western Australia, Northern Territory, E Queensland, and NE New South Wales. Also recorded from offshore islands. Extant range vastly reduced from former distribution (see map in Taylor and Horner, 1973:89, and discussion in Watts and Aslin, 1981). SYNONYMS: apex, austrinus, culmorum, dispar, melvilleus, vallesius, woodwardi. COMMENTS: This species hybridized in the laboratory with R. colletti (Baverstock et al., 1983a, 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 661, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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