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GENUS Sommeromys
| Author: | Musser and Durden, 2002. | | Citation: | Am. Mus. Novit., 3368: 4. | | Type Species: | Sommeromys macrorhinos Musser and Durden, 2002. | | Comments: | CrunomysDivision. Monotypic and represented only by the holotype. Morphology of skin, skull, dentition, and stomach described and contrasted with other murines, particularly the Sulawesian shrew rats (Melasmothrix, Tateomys, and Echiothrix) and Sulawesi and Philippine shrew mice (Crunomys) by Musser and Durden (2002). Certain derived cranial osteological and cephalic arterial complexes suggest affinity with Crunomys; otherwise, Sommeromys has no close morphological or phylogenetic affinity with any other described Sulawesian endemic. It may be a highly specialized relict of a group that diverged early from the Miocene Progonomys like murine ancestral stock. |
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