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--> GENUS Pogonomelomys
SPECIES Pogonomelomys bruijni
Author: | Peters and Doria, 1876. | Citation: | Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 8: 336. | Common Name: | Bruijn’s Pogonomelomys | Type Locality: | W New Guinea, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), Pulau Salawati, off W coast of Vogelkop. | Distribution: | New Guinea; known only by 11 specimens from type locality and Vogelkop mainland in Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya); lower Fly River, and low altitudes on Mt Bosavi and Mt Sisa in Papua New Guinea; not recorded higher than about 60 m (Menzies, 1990; Flannery, 1995a:312). | Status: | IUCN – Critically Endangered. | Comments: | The lowland, larger-bodied morphological and phylogenetic counterpart of the highland P. mayeri. Aplin et al. (1999) reported material of this species from late Pleistocene to mid-Holocene archaeological sites on the Ayamaru Plateau, central Bird’s Head Peninsula of Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
brassi Tate and Archbold, 1941
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