Rattus culmorum subsp. apex Troughton 1939

Rattus culmorum apex Troughton, 1939 Rec. Aust. Mus. 20(4): 280. (31 March 1939). Common name. Pale Field Rat. Current name. Rattus tunneyi culmorum (Thomas & Dollman, 1909), following Jackson & Groves (2015). Holotype. M.3371 by original designation. Female adult, [Field no. 2432], skull, s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy, Divljan, Anja
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Rattus
Rattus culmorum
Rattus culmorum apex troughton
1939
Cape York
Skull Creek
Rattus rattus
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7555692
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7555692
Description
Summary:Rattus culmorum apex Troughton, 1939 Rec. Aust. Mus. 20(4): 280. (31 March 1939). Common name. Pale Field Rat. Current name. Rattus tunneyi culmorum (Thomas & Dollman, 1909), following Jackson & Groves (2015). Holotype. M.3371 by original designation. Female adult, [Field no. 2432], skull, study skin, collected by Robin Kemp on 3 January 1913. Received by exchange from the BMNH in 1923 (apparently not registered in BMNH collection), registered in the AM on 10 December 1923. Condition. Cranium, dentaries and study skin complete. Type locality. Specimen tag cites “Skull Creek; Cape York alt. 20 m ”. Troughton (1939) states that Skull Creek is in the extreme north-west of Cape York Peninsula, Qld. Comments. Troughton’s description appears to be based on a single specimen. Published as part of Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 277-420 in Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5) on page 374, DOI:10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653, http://zenodo.org/record/5237800

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