Mallomys gunung Flannery, Aplin & Groves, 1989

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 358

Mallomys gunung Flannery, Aplin & Groves , in Flannery et al. 1989

Rec. Aust. Mus. 41(1): 101, figs 1–2, 11–12; tables 4–5. (30 June 1989).

Common name. Alpine Woolly Rat.

Current name. Mallomys gunung Flannery, Aplin & Groves , in Flannery et al. 1989; following Musser & Carleton (2005).

Paratypes. (3, by original designation): all three AM paratypes collected by R. G. Peters, “pickup” skulls, of unknown sex. M. 19028 , anterior part of cranium and both dentaries, collected at alt. 3,780 m, and M. 19029 , anterior half of cranium only, collected at alt. 3,760 m, both collected on 9 December 1983. Original account gives locality for both as “Moraine Camp, Meren Valley”, specimen labels state “Morraine near Camp Meren V”, Mount Carstensz (4°05'S 137°11'E), Papua Province, (previously West Irian ), Indonesia. M. 19030 , anterior part of cranium, collected at 3,500 m on 9 December 1983, Ertzberg Meadow, Mount Carstensz (4°05'S 137°11'E) .

Comments. Six specimens in the type series, holotype and one paratype are in the AMNH , the remaining paratype is in the ANWC .