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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Anisomys
SPECIES Anisomys imitator
| Author: | Thomas, 1903. | | Actual Date: | 1904 | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1903: 200. | | Common Name: | Uneven-toothed Rat | | Type Locality: | Papua New Guinea, Central Province, Aroa River, Avera. | | Distribution: | Forested mountain backbone of mainland New Guinea from the Weyland Range in the west to the eastern margin of the Owen Stanley Range in the east; also in the Huon Peninsula; sea level to 3500 m. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Flannery (1990b, 1995a) provided description of the species and revealing distribution map. Musser and Lunde (ms) documented its altitudinal distributions in the Snow Mtns of Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya) and Mt Dayman region of eastern Papua New Guinea. Chromosomal data reported by Donnellan (1987). |
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