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SPECIES Pogonomys championi
Author: | Flannery, 1988. | Citation: | Rec. Aust. Mus., 40: 333. | Common Name: | Champion’s Pogonomys | Type Locality: | Papua New Guinea, Sandaun Provomce, Telefomin Valley, Ofektaman, 1400 m (see Flannery, 1988, for additional information). | Distribution: | Papua New Guinea; known only from Telefomin and Tifalmin valleys between 1400 and 2300 m (Flannery, 1988). | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | Apparently ecologically replaces the smaller-bodied P. sylvestris, but is morphologically similar to P. macrourus (Musser and Lunde, ms.). |
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