Rattus hoffmanni (Matschie, 1901)

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 hoffmanni (Matschie, 1901) . Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 25:284.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, NE Sulawesi, Minahassa .

DISTRIBUTION: Sulawesi; throughout island except upper slopes of Gunung Lampobatang at the end of the SW peninsula (distribution is concordant with that of Paruromys dominator ); also on Pulau Malenge in Kepulauan Togian ( Musser and Holden, 1991).

SYNONYMS: biformatus , celebensis (of Hoffmann, 1887, not Gray, 1867), linduensis, mengkoka, mollicomus , tatei (see Musser, 1971b).

COMMENTS: Morphological, chromosomal, distributional, and ecological boundaries of species elaborated by Musser and Holden (1991), who also documented taxonomic history. Closest relative of R. hoffmanni is R. mollicomulus from Gunung Lampobatang, Sulawesi; both form the monophyletic Rattus hoffmanni group. Phylogenetic affinities of this group to other species of Rattus is unresolved.