Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter 193469 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 f82d72a9-7757-4f0d-8748-fc07b2a86337 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Rattus praetor (Thomas, 1888) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 2:158 . TYPE LOCALITY: Solomon Isis, Guadalcanal Isl, Aola . DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea ; on the mainland found from Vogelkop throughout both sides of Central Cordillera in Irian Jaya and lowlands of N New Guinea to about the Sepik-Ramu drainage. Also occurs on Admiralty and Solomon Isis and in the Bismarck Arch, on Umboi, New Britain, and New Ireland ( Flannery and White, 1991 ; Taylor et al., 1982 ). SYNONYMS: bandiculus , coenorum , mediocris , purdiensis , sansapor , tramitius, utakwa. COMMENTS: In Tate's (1951) monograph, this species was listed as a subspecies of R. ruber ; the holotype of ruber is an example of the introduced R. nitidus ( Taylor et al., 1983 , summarized the taxonomic history).