Taeromys celebensis (Gray 1867)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1506

Taeromys celebensis (Gray 1867)

[Mus (Gymnomys)] celebensis Gray 1867 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867: 598.

Type Locality: Indonesia, NE Peninsula, Manado.

Vernacular Names: Long-tailed Taeromys.

Distribution: Sulawesi: recorded from throughout the island in lowland tropical evergreen rainforest, sea level to 1200 m; absent from montane forest formations ( Musser and Holden, 1991).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Documented from SW peninsula only by subfossil fragment ( Musser, 1984), but from elsewhere by extant specimens. An arboreal species with a very long tail relative to head and body length, and morphologically unlike any other species in the genus, all of which are terrestrial and have relatively short tails ( Breed and Musser, 1991; Musser and Newcomb, 1983; Musser, ms). Taeromys celebensis is relatively common in primary forest, not difficult to trap, and represented by many more specimens than the other species of Taeromys . It is superficially similar to Paruromys dominator and often misidentified as that species in museum collections.