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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Melomys
SPECIES Melomys matambuai
| Author: | Flannery, Colgan, and Trimble, 1994. | | Citation: | Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 114: 39. | | Common Name: | Manus Island Melomys | | Type Locality: | Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Arch., Admirality Isls, Manus Isl. | | Distribution: | Known only by two specimens from Manus Isl. | | Comments: | A member of the "Melomys rufescens Division" (Menzies, 1996) and "very distinct, both in its biochemistry and morphology, and . . . presumably a long-isolated species" (Flannery, 1995b:140). Melomys matambuai is most closely related to M. paveli on Seram Isl., M. bougainville on Manus Isl, and the wide-ranging M. rufescens (Helgen, 2003b; see account of M. paveli). |
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