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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Hyomys
SPECIES Hyomys goliath
| Author: | Milne-Edwards, 1900. | | Citation: | Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 6: 165. | | Common Name: | Eastern Hyomys | | Type Locality: | Papua New Guinea, Central Province, highlands of Aroa River basin. | | Distribution: | Papua New Guinea; Central Cordillera from the Kratke Mtns in the north and Mt Sisa in the south (Leary and Seri, 1997) eastward to Mt Dayman at the end of the Owen Stanley Range, south to mountains of Milne Bay Province, and mountains of Huon Peninsula. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | This is the larger-bodied species with prominent white auricular tufts that is identified as meeki in the older literature. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
meeki Thomas, 1904
strobilurus Rümmler, 1933
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