Rattus praetor subsp. mediocris Troughton 1936
Rattus praetor mediocris Troughton, 1936a Rec. Aust. Mus. 19(5): 343. (7 April 1936). Common name. Large New Guinea Spiny Rat. Current name. Rattus praetor praetor (Thomas, 1888b), following Taylor et al. (1982) and Musser & Carleton (2005). Holotype. M.5761 by original designation. Male, [Field...
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| Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/7555704 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7555704 |
| Summary: | Rattus praetor mediocris Troughton, 1936a Rec. Aust. Mus. 19(5): 343. (7 April 1936). Common name. Large New Guinea Spiny Rat. Current name. Rattus praetor praetor (Thomas, 1888b), following Taylor et al. (1982) and Musser & Carleton (2005). Holotype. M.5761 by original designation. Male, [Field no. 214], skull, study skin, collected by Rev. J. B. Poncelet, collection date not given, registered 27 December 1934. Condition. Cranium missing right side of occipital area, detached right auditory capsule, missing jugal bone of left zygomatic arch; both dentaries complete. Study skin, missing tail tip. Type locality. Buin, Bougainville Island, North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea. Paratypes. (2, by original designation). M.5759, skull, study skin; M.5760, body in alc., both males, details as per holotype. Comments. Type series appears to be limited to the three specimens listed above. No other specimens with similar collection details are included in the AM specimen database. 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 377, DOI:10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653, http://zenodo.org/record/5237800 |
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