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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Rattus
SPECIES Rattus mordax
| Author: | Thomas, 1904. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 14: 398. | | Common Name: | Eastern New Guinea Rat | | Type Locality: | Papua New Guinea, Kumusi River (see Tate, 1951:333, for comments). | | Distribution: | Papua New Guinea; Huon Peninsula and both sides of Owen Stanley Range on mainland, sea level to 2750 m (Taylor et al., 1982; Flannery, 1995a). Also recorded from Goodenough, Fergusson, and Normanby Isls in the D'Entrecasteaux Arch.; Woodlark Isl in the Trobriand Arch.; Misima and Sudest in the Louisiade Arch.; the Conflict Group of islands; and Sideia Isl, off the tip of E Papua (Flannery, 1995b). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Rattus leucopus species group. Originally described by Thomas as a species, mordax had been treated as a subspecies of either leucopus, ringens, or ruber until it was reinstated by Taylor et al. (1982). Reviewed by Flannery (1995a). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
fergussoniensis Laurie, 1952
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