Hapalotis personata Krefft 1867
- 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
- Hapalotis
- species
- Hapalotis personata
description
Common name. Cape York Rat. Current name. Rattus leucopus (J. Gray, 1867); following Jackson & Groves (2015). Lectotype. PA. 77, lectotype designation by Mahoney (1973). Female adult, skull, skin mount, the only data entered in Palmer’s hand in the Palmer Register is “ Hapalotis personata Cape York ” and “ Gallery ” (= skin mount) has been stamped in Remarks column. Condition. Cranium missing right zygomatic arch; right dentary has a broken ramus. Skin mount in reasonable condition; bald patch posterior to each eye; bald patch on throat; bald patch on body behind each hind leg; ventral fur crudely repaired, tail fractured near tip.
discussion
Comments. Troughton (1923) discussed the type series and regarded the taxon to be a synonym of Rattus rattus. Mahoney (1973) regarded PA. 75 – 77 to be Krefft’s original specimens and provided detailed skull measurements and photographs of the designated lectotype. He rejected Troughton’s assessment of Krefft’s taxon but found it to be a synonym of another taxon described in the same volume and also from Cape York — Acanthomys leucopus Gray, 1867. Although Krefft’s name had page preference, Mahoney designated Acanthomys leucopus as senior synonym to preserve existing use.
materials_examined
Type locality. Cape York, north Qld, Australia. Paralectotypes. (2). PA. 75, male, skull, skin mount; PA. 76, indeterminate sex, skin mount without skull, both have Palmer entries that are identical to that of the lectotype.
Name
- Homonyms
- Hapalotis personata Krefft 1867