Paulamys naso (Musser 1981)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1435

Paulamys naso (Musser 1981)

[Floresomys] naso Musser 1981 , Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 169: 112.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Isls), Pulau Flores, Menggarai Province, Liang Toge, cave near Warukia, 1 km S Lepa.

Vernacular Names: Paula's Long-nosed Rat.

Distribution: Recorded only on Flores Isl.

Conservation: IUCN – Extinct (but see comments).

Discussion: Originally described from subfossil fragments ( Musser, 1981 c; Musser et al., 1986), but an extant specimen collected in tropical rainforest at 1600 m from SC Flores was referred to this species by Kitchener et al. (1991 a), who suggested it is closely related to Sulawesian Bunomys . Apparently P. naso is not uncommon in forested habitats between 1000 and 2000 m on Gunung Ranaka in West Flores (Kitchener and Yani, 1998; Kitchener et al., 1998).