Pogonomelomys mayeri (Rothschild and Dollman 1932)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1440

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11335317

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scientific name

Pogonomelomys mayeri (Rothschild and Dollman 1932)
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Pogonomelomys mayeri (Rothschild and Dollman 1932) View in CoL

[Melomys] mayeri Rothschild and Dollman 1932 , Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1932 (353): 14.

Type Locality: New Guinea, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), Weyland Range, Gebroeders Mtns, 5000 ft (1524 m).

Vernacular Names: Shaw Mayer's Pogonomelomys.

Distribution: New Guinea; mountains from Weyland Range in Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya) to Wau region and Huon Peninsula in Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea; not known from the Vogelkop in Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya) or the Owen Stanley Range in E Papua New Guinea; 400-1500 m.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Phallic morphology described by Lidicker (1968). Specimens of P. mayeri and P. bruijni were collected on Mt Sisa in the Kikori River Basin of S Papua New Guinea ( Leary and Seri, 1997), but altitudinal relationships between the two there have not been published.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Pogonomelomys

Loc

Pogonomelomys mayeri (Rothschild and Dollman 1932)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Melomys] mayeri

Rothschild and Dollman 1932: 14
1932
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