Melomys rubicola Thomas, 1924

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 : 619

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scientific name	Melomys rubicola Thomas, 1924
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Melomys rubicola Thomas, 1924 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 13:298.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Queensland, Torres Strait, Bramble Cay, about 9°S, 144°E GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION: Australia; endemic to Bramble Cay at the extreme northern end of the Great Barrier Reef of Queensland ( Limpus et al., 1983).

COMMENTS: Studies of blood proteins and morphology suggested M. rubicola was closely related to M. capensis , which is endemic to Cape York in N Queensland ( Limpus et al., 1983). Structure of sperm head described by Breed (1984).