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SPECIES Macruromys major

Author:Rümmler, 1935.
Citation:Z. Säugetierk., 10: 105.
Common Name:Greater Macruromys
Type Locality:Papua New Guinea, Eastern Highlands Province, Kratke Mtns, Buntibasa Dist, 4000-5000 ft (1220-1524 m).
Distribution:New Guinea; known from a few mid-altitude localities (1200-1500 m) on N slopes of Snow Mtns in Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya) and Central Cordillera of Papua New Guinea to the Eastern Highlands Province, southeast to Mt. Simpson (Flannery, 1990b; 1995a; Musser and Lunde, ms).
Status:IUCN – Endangered.
Comments:Phallic morphology and its systematic significance described by Lidicker (1968). The scanty distributional and ecological information associated with M. major summarized by Flannery (1995a).
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