Chiropodomys karlkoopmani Musser, 1979

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 : 584

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scientific name	Chiropodomys karlkoopmani Musser, 1979
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Chiropodomys karlkoopmani Musser, 1979 View in CoL . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 162(6):389.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Kepulauan Mentawai, Pulau Pagai Utara .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Pagai (Musser, 1979), and Siberut ( Jenkins and Hill, 1982) in the Mentawai Isis.

COMMENTS: The largest in body size of any described Chiropodomys , and possibly most closely related to C. major . Part of the rodent fauna endemic to the Mentawi Archipelago (see account of Leopoldamys siporanus ).