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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Taeromys
SPECIES Taeromys arcuatus
| Author: | Tate and Archbold, 1935. | | Citation: | Am. Mus. Novit., 802: 9. | | Common Name: | Southeastern Mountain Taeromys | | Type Locality: | Indonesia, SE Sulawesi, Pegunnungan Mekongga (= Mengkoka), Tanke Salokko (highest spot on the mountain), 03E35'S/121E15'E, 1500 m. | | Distribution: | Known only from the type locality. | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Closest relative is an undescribed species in mountains of C Sulawesi (Musser and Holden, 1991; Musser, ms). This geographic pattern, in which a species in the central part of the island has a close ally on the SE Peninsula, is repeated by Taeromys callitrichus (central) and T. microbullatus (southeast), an undescribed species of Maxomys (central) and M. dollmani (southeast), and Rattus marmosurus (central) and R. salocco (southeast). Sody (1941) proposed Arcuomys for arcuatus. |
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