Lenomys meyeri (Jentink 1879)

[Mus] meyeri Jentink 1879, Notes Leyden Mus ., 1: 12.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Sulawesi, NE peninsula, Menado.

Vernacular Names: Meyer's Lenomys.

Synonyms: Lenomys lampo Tate and Archbold 1935; Lenomys longicaudus Miller and Hollister 1921 .

Distribution: Recorded only from N, C, and SW Sulawesi.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Represented by a small extant series from the N peninsula and C core, and by both modern specimens and subfossils from the SW peninsula of Sulawesi (Musser, 1970 d; 1984). A second undescribed species is known from a subfossil fragment collected in the SW arm of Sulawesi (Musser and Holden, 1991; Musser, ms). Flannery (1995 b) identified a large-bodied rat, with shaggy pelage and long bicolored tail, from Pulau Sangir (off coast of NE peninsular tip of Sulawesi) as Lenomys meyeri, but the specimen represents an undescribed species related to mainland Rattus xanthurus (Musser, ms); Lenomys has yet to be collected on any island off the coast of Sulawesi.