Leptomys signatus Tate and Archbold 1938

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 : 1351

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11334825

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scientific name

Leptomys signatus Tate and Archbold 1938
status

 

Leptomys signatus Tate and Archbold 1938 View in CoL

Leptomys signatus Tate and Archbold 1938 View in CoL , Am. Mus . Novit., 982: 2.

Type Locality: Papua New Guinea, Western Province, Sturt Isl Camp, Fly River (north bank), near sea level, 08°15'S, 142°15'E. GoogleMaps

Vernacular Names: Fly River Leptomys.

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

Conservation: IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: The diagnostic traits Tate and Archbold (1938) used to separate this species from the other two (short, dense fur and gray upperparts with a white blaze on forehead) identify a lowland population of Leptomys that shows no morphological intergradation with samples of the other three species of Leptomys (Musser and Lunde, ms). Leptomys signatus is still known only by the four examples in the type series.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Leptomys

Loc

Leptomys signatus Tate and Archbold 1938

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

Leptomys signatus

Tate and Archbold 1938: 2
1938
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