Coryphomys buhleri Schaub, 1937

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 : 587

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Coryphomys buhleri Schaub, 1937 . Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel, 48:2.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara, W Timor, cave deposit near Nikiniki .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Timor.

COMMENTS: Known only by subfossil fragments collected at the type locality and from sites in E Timor ( Glover, 1986). Related to endemic New Guinea murines and not to species of Papagomys, Hooijeromys , Komodomys , or Paulamys on Flores. Coryphomys buhleri is one of four species, each in its own genus, of giant rats (three have yet to be named and described) endemic to Timor; all are known only by subfossils ( Glover, 1986).