Rattus culmorum subsp. apex Troughton 1939

• 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

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