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SPECIES Pogonomelomys mayeri

Author:Rothschild and Dollman, 1932.
Citation:Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1932(353): 14.
Common Name:Shaw Mayer’s Pogonomelomys
Type Locality:New Guinea, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), Weyland Range, Gebroeders Mtns, 5000 ft (1524 m).
Distribution:New Guinea; mountains from Weyland Range in Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya) to Wau region and Huon Peninsula in Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea; not known from the Vogelkop in Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya) or the Owen Stanley Range in E Papua New Guinea; 400-1500 m.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Phallic morphology described by Lidicker (1968). Specimens of P. mayeri and P. bruijni were collected on Mt Sisa in the Kikori River Basin of S Papua New Guinea (Leary and Seri, 1997), but altitudinal relationships between the two there have not been published.
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