Bunomys chrysocomus (Hoffmann, 1887)

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 : 581

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scientific name	Bunomys chrysocomus (Hoffmann, 1887)
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Bunomys chrysocomus (Hoffmann, 1887) View in CoL . Abh. Zool. Anthrop.-Ethnology Mus. Dresden, 3:17

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, N Sulawesi, Minahassa .

DISTRIBUTION: Sulawesi; throughout island generally between 200 and 1500 m, but reaches 2200 m in some places.

SYNONYMS: brevimolaris , koka, nigellus , rallus .

COMMENTS: Placed in the “ Rattus chrysocomus Group " by Tate (1936), in subgenus Rattus by Ellerman (1941: 190), then subgenus Maxomys of Rattus by Ellerman (1949a:70) and Laurie and Hill (1954: 118); but treated as a species of Bunomys by Musser (1981 c, 1991) and Musser and Newcomb (1983).