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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Mallomys
SPECIES Mallomys gunung
| Author: | Flannery, Aplin, and Groves, 1989. | | Citation: | Rec. Aust. Mus., 41: 101. | | Common Name: | Alpine Mallomys | | Type Locality: | New Guinea, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), 2 km E Mt Wilhelmina, 3800 m (Flannery et al., 1989, gave details). | | Distribution: | New Guinea, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), Snow Mtns (Pegunungan Maoke); known only from vicinity of the type locality and Mt Carstenz (Flannery et al., 1989:97; Flannery, 1995a:286). | | Status: | IUCN – Critically Endangered. | | Comments: | A very distinctive species known only by a few specimens collected between 3500 and 4050 m. On the N slopes of the Snow Mtns it is replaced at lower elevations by M. istapantap and M. rothschildi. |
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