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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