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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Uromys
--> SUBGENUS Uromys
SPECIES Uromys (Uromys) emmae
| Author: | Groves and Flannery, 1994. | | Citation: | Rec. Aust. Mus., 46: 159. | | Common Name: | Emma’s Uromys | | Type Locality: | Indonesia, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), Geelvinck Bay, Schouten Isl Group, Pulau Awai (Owi Isl). | | Distribution: | Recorded only from Pulau Awai, but may also occur on adjacent Biak and Supiori Isls (Flannery, 1995b). | | Comments: | Subgenus Uromys. Still known only by the holotype. Morphologically and phylogenetically most closely related to the Australian-New Guinea U. caudimaculatus and NE Australian U. hadrourus (Groves and flannery, 1994). |
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