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SPECIES Batomys russatus

Author:Musser, Heaney, and Tabaranza, Jr., 1998.
Citation:Am. Mus. Novit., 3237: 34.
Common Name:Russet Batomys
Type Locality:Philippines, Dinagat Isl (Surigao del Norte Province), Plaridel Municipality, Libjo (=Albor).
Distribution:Greater Mindanao Faunal Region. Endemic to Dinagat Isl in lowland tropical evergreen rainforest.
Comments:Sympatric with B. salomonseni. Unique among all species of living Murinae in retaining a complete cephalic arterial pattern (the primitive configuration for muroid rodents) as indicated by the presence of a sphenofrontal foramen, squamosal-alisphenoid groove, large stapedial foramen, and groove scoring ventral surface of posterolateral pterygoid plate (Musser et al., 1998a). Batomys russatus is part of a small cluster of mammals endemic to Dinagat (which includes Crateromys australis and Podogymnura aureospinula).
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