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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Mallomys
SPECIES Mallomys aroaensis
Author: | De Vis, 1907. | Citation: | Ann. Queensl. Mus., 7: 11. | Common Name: | De Vis’s Mallomys | Type Locality: | Papua New Guinea, Central Province, head of Aroa River (Flannery et al., 1989, provided additional data). | Distribution: | New Guinea; in Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya) in the Arfak Mtns of Vogelkop region and on the S side of the Snow Mtns (Pegunungan Maoke), then throughout the Central Cordillera of Papua New Guinea to Mt Simpson in the east; also highlands of Huon Peninsula; 1100-2700 m (Flannery et al., 1989:95; Flannery, 1995a). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Broadly sympatric with M. rothschildi along the Central Cordillera in Papua New Guinea (Flannery, 1995a). Cole et al. (1997) discussed a specimen obtained on E flanks of Mt Dayman. |
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