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
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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).