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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Taeromys
SPECIES Taeromys microbullatus
| Author: | Tate and Archbold, 1935. | | Citation: | Am. Mus. Novit., 802: 8. | | Common Name: | Small-eared Taeromys | | Type Locality: | Indonesia, SE Peninsula, Pegunungan Mekongga (= Mengkoka), Tanke Salokko (highest place in Pegunungan Mekongga), 03E35'S/121E15'E, 1500 m. | | Distribution: | Recorded only from the type locality. | | Comments: | Still represented only by two adults and a juvenile collected in 1932. Although described as a species of Rattus, microbullatus has been allied to the Rattus xanthurus group (Ellerman, 1941), included in Paruromys (Ellerman, 1949a; Laurie and Hill, 1954) or synonymized with T. callitrichus (Corbet and Hill, 1992; Musser, 1970d; Musser and Carleton, 1993), but morphometric analyses indicates the small sample represents a distinctive entity that is more closely related to T. callitrichus than to any other species of Taeromys (Musser, ms). |
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