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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Rattus
SPECIES Rattus steini
Author: | Rümmler, 1935. | Citation: | Z. Säugetierk., 10: 115. | Common Name: | Stein’s New Guinea Rat | Type Locality: | New Guinea, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), Weyland Range, Mt Kunupi. | Distribution: | Mostly mid-montane elevations along Central Cordillera of the Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya) to C Papua New Guinea, as well as highlands along N coast and on Huon Peninsula; 20-2800 m; absent from the Vogelkop Peninsula, Trans-Fly region, and E Papua (see Taylor et al., 1982:243, and Flannery, 1995a:337). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Rattus leucopus species group. Until Taylor et al.'s (1982) revision, the distinctness of R. steini was obscured by its historical allocation at different times as a subspecies of R. leucopus, R. mordax, R. ringens (= R. leucopus), R. ruber (= R. nitidus), and Stenomys verecundus. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
baliemensis Taylor and Calaby, 1982 försteri (Rümmler, 1935) hageni Troughton, 1937 rosalinda Hinton, 1943
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