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--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Rattus
SPECIES Rattus arrogans
Author: | Thomas, 1922. | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 9: 263. | Common Name: | Western New Guinea Mountain Rat | Type Locality: | New Guinea, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), N slopes Snow Mtns (Pegunungan Maoke), Doormanpad-bivak, 2400 m, 03E30'S, 138E30'E (Laurie and Hill, 1954). | Distribution: | Western New Guinea; recorded from the central mountainous backbone of Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya; Pegunungan Maoke) eastward to the Star Mtns in W Papua New Guinea (longitude 141EE), 2200-4050 m (some of the material cited by Taylor et al., 1982 as Rattus niobe arrogans; Flannery and Seri, 1990; specimens in AMNH). | Status: | haymani(Ellerman, 1941); klossi Thomas, 1913 [not Bonhote, 1906]. | |
| Offspring: | Synonyms:
haymani (Ellerman, 1941) klossi Thomas, 1913
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