Rattus tunneyi (Thomas, 1904)

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 : 661

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scientific name	Rattus tunneyi (Thomas, 1904)
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Rattus tunneyi (Thomas, 1904) View in CoL . Novit. Zool., 11:223.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, Mary River .

DISTRIBUTION: Australia; NE and SW Western Australia, Northern Territory, E Queensland, and NE New South Wales. Also recorded from offshore islands. Extant range vastly reduced from former distribution (see map in Taylor and Horner, 1973:89, and discussion in Watts and Aslin, 1981).

SYNONYMS: apex, austrinus , culmorum , dispar , melvilleus , vallesius, woodwardi .

COMMENTS: This species hybridized in the laboratory with R. colletti ( Baverstock et al., 1983a, 1986).

References

Baverstock, P. R., M. Gelder, and A. Jahnke. 1983 a. Chromosome evolution in Australian Rattus- - G-banding and hybrid meiosis. Genetica, 60: 93 - 103.

Taylor, J. M., and B. E. Horner. 1973. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 98. Systematics of native Australian Rattus (Rodentia, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 150: 1 - 130.

Watts, C. H. S., and H. J. Aslin. 1981. The rodents of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 321 pp.