Rattus bontanus Thomas, 1921

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 651

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scientific name

Rattus bontanus Thomas, 1921
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Rattus bontanus Thomas, 1921 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 7:246.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, SW Sulawesi, Mt Bonthain (Gunung Lampobatang), 2000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from 600-2500 m on the slopes of Gunung Lampobatang, SW Sulawesi.

COMMENTS: Sody (1941) questionably included this species in Taeromys, Laurie and Hill (1954) , and Musser (1984) treated it as a subspecies of R. xanthurus , but Musser and Holden (1991) contended that it is a distinct species most closely related to R. foramineus , which occurs in coastal lowlands of the southern end of the SW peninsula of Sulawesi.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Rattus

Loc

Rattus bontanus Thomas, 1921

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton 1993
1993
Loc

Rattus bontanus

Thomas 1921: 246
1921
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