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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Tateomys
SPECIES Tateomys rhinogradoides
| Author: | Musser, 1969. | | Citation: | Am. Mus. Novit., 2384: 3. | | Common Name: | Tate’s Sulawesian Shrew Rat | | Type Locality: | Indonesia, C Sulawesi, Gunung Latimodjong, 2200 m. | | Distribution: | Known from the type locality, Gunung Tokala, and Gunung Nokilalaki at high elevations in tropical upper montane rain forest in C core of Sulawesi; most likely will be found on other mountains in C Sulawesi in similar forest formations. | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | This terrestrial vermivore is the largest-bodied of the species of Tateomys and Melasmothrix. Stomach morphology closely similar to that of Tateomys macrocercus and Melasmothrix naso and unlike the large-bodied, Sulawesian shrew rat, Echiothrix centrosa, which occurs in lowland tropical evergeen rain forest at lower altitudes in the same region (Musser and Durden, 2002). |
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