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--> GENUS Melomys
SPECIES Melomys bougainville
Author: | Troughton, 1936. | Citation: | Rec. Aust. Mus., 19: 344. | Common Name: | Bougainville Island Melomys | Type Locality: | Solomon Isls, Bougainville Isl, Buin. | Distribution: | Recorded only from islands of Buka, Bougainville, and Choiseul in northern Solomon Arch. (Flannery and Wickler, 1990; Flannery, 1995b). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | Comments: | Although historically treated as a subspecies of M. rufescens, M. bougainville is a separate species known by small samples of extant and archaeological specimens (Flannery and Wickler, 1990). Most closely related to M. rufescens, M. matambuai, and M. paveli (Helgen, 2003b; Menzies, 1996). |
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