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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Rattus
SPECIES Rattus pococki
| Author: | Ellerman, 1941. | | Citation: | Family and Genera of Living Rodents, 2: 206. | | Common Name: | Pocock’s New Guinea Highland Rat | | Type Locality: | New Guinea, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), Weyland Range, Mt Sumuri, 2500 m. | | Distribution: | New Guinea, middle altitudes along Central Cordillera of Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), 1500-2500 m. | | Comments: | Rattus leucopus species group; member of the R. niobe complex. Rattus pococki is replaced at higher elevations in the Central Cordillera (Pegunungan Maoke) of Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya) by R. arrogans (see that account). Relationship to R. niobe of Papua New Guinea remains to be determined. |
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