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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Tateomys
SPECIES Tateomys macrocercus
| Author: | Musser, 1982. | | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 174: 64. | | Common Name: | Long-tailed Sulawesian Shrew Rat | | Type Locality: | Indonesia, C Sulawesi, Gunung Nokilalaki, 7500 ft (2286 m). | | Distribution: | Known only between 1980 and 2286 m in tropical upper montane rain forest on Gunung Nokilalaki, but probably occurs in other mountainous regions of C Sulawesi. | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Stomach morphology of T. macrocercus, which is scansorial, nocturnal, and vermivorous, described and compared with the arboreal and insectivorous Sommeromys and other Sulawesian endemics by Musser and Durden (2002). |
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