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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Uromys
--> SUBGENUS Uromys
SPECIES Uromys (Uromys) boeadii
| Author: | Groves and Flannery, 1994. | | Citation: | Rec. Aust. Mus., 46: 157. | | Common Name: | Biak Island Uromys | | Type Locality: | Indonesia, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), Geelvinck Bay, Pulau Biak, 25 km northeast of Biak (town), 65 m (Flannery, 1995b). | | Distribution: | Known only by the holotype collected on Pulau Biak. | | Comments: | Subgenus Uromys. Regarded as a primitive member of the subgenus (Flannery, 1995b) and "the plesiomorphic sister-group to all other species of subgenus Uromys" (Groves and Flannery (1994:164). |
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