Rattus palmarum (Zelebor, 1869)

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 : 657

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scientific name	Rattus palmarum (Zelebor, 1869)
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Rattus palmarum (Zelebor, 1869) View in CoL . Reise Oesterr. Fregatte Novara. Zool., (Wirbelthiere), Säugeth., p. 26.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Nicobar Isis, probably Carr Nicobar (Dr. K. Bauer, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, in litt.) .

DISTRIBUTION: Nicobar Isis, probably Carr Nicobar.

SYNONYMS: novarae , palmarum .

COMMENTS: Known only by the few specimens in the original series. A distinctive species (Musser and Heaney, 1985; Musser and Newcomb, 1983) that may be related to the R. tiomanicus complex (Musser, 1986) . Both synonyms are Fitzinger names dating from 1861 and are nomina nuda (see Miller, 1902:759).