Melomys fraterculus (Thomas, 1920)

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 : 616

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scientific name

Melomys fraterculus (Thomas, 1920)
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Melomys fraterculus (Thomas, 1920) View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 6:428.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Pulau Seram, Mt Manusela, 6000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to Seram Isl.

COMMENTS: Placed in Pogonomelomys by Riimmler (1938), kept there by Tate (1951), but returned to Melomys by Laurie and Hill (1954). Based on our study of specimens, Melomys fraterculus shares many derived cranial features with the Australian M. cervinipes complex and is probably more closely related to the indigenous Australian Melomys than to those on New Guinea.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Melomys

Loc

Melomys fraterculus (Thomas, 1920)

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

Melomys fraterculus (Thomas, 1920)

Thomas 1920: 428
1920
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