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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Macruromys
SPECIES Macruromys major
| Author: | Rümmler, 1935. | | Citation: | Z. Säugetierk., 10: 105. | | Common Name: | Greater Macruromys | | Type Locality: | Papua New Guinea, Eastern Highlands Province, Kratke Mtns, Buntibasa Dist, 4000-5000 ft (1220-1524 m). | | Distribution: | New Guinea; known from a few mid-altitude localities (1200-1500 m) on N slopes of Snow Mtns in Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya) and Central Cordillera of Papua New Guinea to the Eastern Highlands Province, southeast to Mt. Simpson (Flannery, 1990b; 1995a; Musser and Lunde, ms). | | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Phallic morphology and its systematic significance described by Lidicker (1968). The scanty distributional and ecological information associated with M. major summarized by Flannery (1995a). |
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