Rattus sansapor Troughton 1946
- Dataset
- Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Muridae
- genus
- Rattus
- species
- Rattus sansapor
description
Condition. Cranium and dentaries complete. Study skin: left pes is enlarged by a pathological deformity; left manus missing digit 2 (probably when live), missing tail tip; skin otherwise complete and in reasonable condition.
description
Current name. Rattus praetor coenorum Thomas, 1922 b; following subspecific arrangement tentatively proposed by Taylor et al. (1982). Taxonomic clarification of R. praetor coenorum from western New Guinea is needed (see Robins et al. 2014: 14).
discussion
Comments. Description apparently based on two specimens, with registration numbers cited for both in the original account.
distribution
Type locality. Sansapor, on the north-west coast of the Vogelkop region, West Papua Province, Indonesia.
materials_examined
Holotype. M. 7195 by original designation. Male adult, skull, study skin, presented by Captain James T. Griffiths, registered April 1946, collection date not given.
materials_examined
Paratype. M. 7194 by original designation. Young male, skull, study skin, collection date not given, other data as per holotype.
vernacular_names
Common name. Large New Guinea Spiny Rat.
Name
- Homonyms
- Rattus sansapor Troughton 1946