Rattus gestri subsp. aramia Troughton 1937

• Main Authors: Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy, Divljan, Anja
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae; Rattus; Rattus gestri; Rattus gestri aramia troughton; 1937a; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7555696; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DD87C8FFD873541B53FF7CFBDF9315

Rattus gestri aramia Troughton, 1937a Rec. Aust. Mus. 20(2): 119. (27 August 1937). Common name . Dusky Field Rat. Current name . Rattus sordidus aramia Troughton, 1937a; following Taylor et al. (1982) and Musser & Carleton (2005). Aplin & Helgen et al. (2016) caution that R. sordidus (Gould, 1858) might represent more than one species. Robins et al. (2014) provided evidence that gestri represents a full species but they did not determine whether aramia belonged with sordidus or gestri . Holotype . M.4893 by original designation.Adult male, skull (Fig. 44), study skin, collected on [26 December 1922] by Allan R. McCulloch; registered on 7 March 1930. Metal tag stamped “45” tied to skin is possibly collector’s number. Condition . Cranium, with hole in left auditory bulla; left dentary missing coronoid process; right dentary complete. Study skin: tail tip is detached, otherwise skin in good condition but excessive anterior body stuffing does not reflect life-like proportions. Type locality . [Totani village], “Aramia Lakes district near the mouth of the Aramia River in the Western Division of Papua”, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Paratype . M.4895 by original designation. Young adult female (allotype), skull, study skin, same details as holotype. Comments . The type series apparently consists of two specimens, obtained on Frank Hurley’s second expedition to Papua New Guinea. 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