Rattus giluwensis Hill, 1960

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 653

Rattus giluwensis Hill, 1960 . J. Mammal., 41:277.

TYPE LOCALITY: NE New Guinea, Papua, Mt Giluwe, 11,000 -12,000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Recorded only from Mt Giluwe, Papua New Guinea and adjoining highlands between 2195 and 3660 m (see map in Taylor et al., 1982).

STATUS: IUCN - Rare.

COMMENTS: Originally described as R. ruber melanurus by Laurie and Hill (1954:112), but the name is preoccupied by Rattus melanurus Shamel, 1940 , which refers to a sample of Maxomys whiteheadi . A morphologically distinctive species whose phylogenetic affinities seem equivocal ( Taylor et al., 1982, 1983).