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.