Margaretamys Musser, 1981

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 : 609

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284244

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scientific name

Margaretamys Musser, 1981
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Margaretamys Musser, 1981 View in CoL . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 168(3):275.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus beccarii Jentink, 1880 .

COMMENTS: Morphological, chromosomal, and distributional features monographed by Musser (1981 b). Spermatozoal morphology distinctive and similar among the three species ( Breed and Musser, 1991). Member of the Sulawesi Old Endemics ( Musser, 1981c).

Breed, W. G., and G. G. Musser. 1991. Sulawesi and Philippine rodents (Muridae): A survey of spermatozoal morphology and its significance for phylogenetic inference. American Museum Novitates, 3003: 1 - 15.

Musser, G. G. 1981 b. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 105. Notes on systematics of Indo-Malayan murid rodents, and descriptions of new genera and species from Ceylon, Sulawesi, and the Philippines. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 168: 225 - 334.

Musser, G. G. 1981 c. The giant rat of Flores and its relatives east of Borneo and Bali. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 169: 67 - 176.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae