Melomys fellowsi Hinton, 1943

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 : 616

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284359
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scientific name	Melomys fellowsi Hinton, 1943
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Melomys fellowsi Hinton, 1943 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 11, 10:554.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Purari-Ramu Divide, Baiyanka, 8000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea; known only from a few places at high elevations in the central highlands; see map in Flannery (1990b:222).

COMMENTS: A distinctive species that resembles M. rufescens and M. leucogaster in some morphometric features ( Menzies, 1990).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Muridae
Genus	Melomys

Melomys fellowsi Hinton, 1943

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton 1993

1993

Melomys fellowsi

Hinton 1943: 554

1943

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