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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
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--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Melomys
SPECIES Melomys cervinipes
| Author: | Gould, 1852. | | Citation: | Mamm. Aust., pt. 4, 3: pl. 14. | | Common Name: | Fawn-footed Melomys | | Type Locality: | Australia, Queensland, Stradbrook Isl (as indicated by Thomas’ lectotype designation; see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:162). | | Distribution: | Australia; extant range is closed forest and more open habitat along the E Australian coast from Cooktown region of Cape York in Queensland south to Gosford area of New South Wales (Watts and Aslin, 1981:79; Redhead, 1995a:636). Late Pleistocene specimens indicate distribution once extended farther south to the Pyramids Cave region in Victoria (Wakefield, 1972a). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Anatomy of male reproductive tract and spermatozoa reported by Breed and Sarafis (1978), Morrissey and Breed (1982), and Breed (1984, 1986). Chromosomal morphology, G-banding homologies, and results of electrophoretic analyses presented by Baverstock et al. (1977c, 1980, 1981, 1983b), who (1980) reported that M. cervinipes is phylogenetically close to M. capensis but electrophoretically distant, having experienced a rapid rate of protein evolution relative to M. capensis and M. burtoni. Reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981) and Redhead (1995a). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
banfieldi (De Vis, 1907)
bunya Tate, 1951
eboreus Thomas, 1924
limicauda Troughton, 1935
pallidus Troughton and Le Souef, 1929
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