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--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Mallomys
SPECIES Mallomys istapantap
Author: | Flannery, Aplin, and Groves, 1989. | Citation: | Rec. Aust. Mus., 41: 96. | Common Name: | Subalpine Mallomys | Type Locality: | Papua New Guinea, Mt Hagen Dist., Korelum (Flannery et al., 1989, provided additional information). | Distribution: | New Guinea; high altitudes along Central Cordillera from Mt Victoria in Owen Stanley Range of E Papua New Guinea to Bele River region in Snow Mtns of Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | Comments: | Recorded from the Snow Mtns (Pegunungan Maoke), where it has been taken on the N slopes at the Bele River and on the S slopes near Tembagapura, and the Central Cordillera in Papua New Guinea from Mt Giluwe in the west to Mt Victoria in the east; 2200-3850 m (Flannery, 1995a:289). |
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