Bunomys Thomas, 1910

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 : 581

Bunomys Thomas, 1910 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 6:508.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus coelestis Thomas, 1896 .

SYNONYMS: Bunomys ( Grandidier, 1905, not Thomas, 1910), Frateromys .

COMMENTS: An endemic of Sulawesi. Recognized as a genus by Tate (1936), but included in Rattus by Ellerman (1941), Simpson (1945), Laurie and Hill (1954), and Misonne (1969); treated as separate genus by Musser and Newcomb (1983), Musser (1984, 1987, 1991), and Corbet and Hill (1991). Phylogenetic relationships unresolved, but part of Sulawesi New Endemics; spermatozoal morphology distinctive although some species resemble that in species of Rattus , but resemblance reflects shared primitive features ( Breed and Musser, 1991). Kitchener et al. (1991a) considered Bunomys a very close relative of Paulamys , a Flores endemic; both are probably ecological if not morphological equivalents ( Musser et al., 1986). Geographic and altitudinal distributions of species, along with forest types, summarized by Musser and Dagosto (1987), Musser (1991), and Musser and Holden (1991). Grandidier (1905:50) proposed Bunotnys for a Madagascar rat, and Sody (1941:260) used Frateromys , but both are nomina nuda.