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SPECIES Paulamys naso

Author:Musser, 1981.
Citation:Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 169: 112.
Common Name:Paula’s Long-nosed Rat
Type Locality:Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Isls), Pulau Flores, Menggarai Province, Liang Toge, cave near Warukia, 1 km S Lepa.
Distribution:Recorded only on Flores Isl.
Status:IUCN – Extinct (but see comments).
Comments:Originally described from subfossil fragments (Musser, 1981c; Musser et al., 1986), but an extant specimen collected in tropical rainforest at 1600 m from SC Flores was referred to this species by Kitchener et al. (1991a), who suggested it is closely related to Sulawesian Bunomys. Apparently P. naso is not uncommon in forested habitats between 1000 and 2000 m on Gunung Ranaka in West Flores (Kitchener and Yani, 1998; Kitchener et al., 1998).
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