Leptomys signatus Tate and Archbold, 1938

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 : 605

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284141
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scientific name	Leptomys signatus Tate and Archbold, 1938
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Leptomys signatus Tate and Archbold, 1938 View in CoL . Am. Mus. Novit., 982:2.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Western Prov., Sturt Isl Camp, Fly River (N bank), near Fairfax Isis, sea level .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality along lower Fly River; limits unknown.

COMMENTS: The diagnostic traits Tate and Archbold (1938) used to separate this species from the other two identify a lowland population of Leptomys that shows no morphological intergradation with samples of either L. elegans or L. ernstmayri . This species is still known only by the four examples in the type series.