Palawanomys furvus Musser and Newcomb 1983

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 : 1429

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11335231

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scientific name

Palawanomys furvus Musser and Newcomb 1983
status

 

Palawanomys furvus Musser and Newcomb 1983 View in CoL

Palawanomys furvus Musser and Newcomb 1983 View in CoL , Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 174: 335.

Type Locality: Philippines, Palawan Isl, Brooke's Point Municipality, Mt Mantalingajan, 4500 ft (1370 m).

Vernacular Names: Palawan Mountain Rat.

Distribution: Greater Palawan Faunal Region (politically part of the Philippines but faunistically an insular extension of the Sunda Shelf). Known only from the type locality.

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Recorded only by four melanistic examples, possibly highly restricted in distribution ( Heaney et al., 1998; Musser and Newcomb, 1983). One of three murines endemic to the Greater Palawan Faunal Region ( Maxomys panglima and Chiropodomys calamianus are the other two).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Palawanomys

Loc

Palawanomys furvus Musser and Newcomb 1983

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

Palawanomys furvus

Musser and Newcomb 1983: 335
1983
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