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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Melomys
SPECIES Melomys obiensis
| Author: | Thomas, 1911. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 7: 208. | | Common Name: | Obi Island Melomys | | Type Locality: | Indonesia, Malukus, Pulau Obi. | | Distribution: | Endemic to Obi and Bisa, Isls, south of Halmahera (Flannery, 1995b; Helgen, 2003b). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Judged by morphological traits, possibly a close relative of M. fraterculus from Seram, and more closely related to Australian Melomys cervinipes than to any New Guinea species, an observation gleaned from Musser’s study of specimens and earlier recorded by Tate (1951:297). |
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