Rattus mollicomulus Tate and Archbold, 1935

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 : 655

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scientific name	Rattus mollicomulus Tate and Archbold, 1935
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Rattus mollicomulus Tate and Archbold, 1935 View in CoL . Am. Mus. Novit., 802:4.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Sulawesi, SW Sulawesi, Gunung Lampobatang, Wawokaraeng, 1500 m .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the upper slopes of Gunung Lampobatang, Sulawesi; distribution is concordant with Paruromys ursinus ( Musser and Holden, 1991) .

COMMENTS: Morphological and distributional limits outlined by Musser and Holden (1991), who also provided a history of past allocations of the name. Closest relative is R. hoffmanni , which occurs in lowlands of the SW peninsula and throughout the rest of Sulawesi.