Mus burtoni Ramsay, 1887a

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 : 363

Mus burtoni Ramsay, 1887a

Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (ser. 2) 2(3): 553, pl. xvii. (30 November 1887).

Common name. Grassland Melomys .

Current name. Melomys burtoni ( Ramsay, 1887a) , following Jackson & Groves (2015).

Holotype. S.427, by subsequent determination ( Mahoney, 1965). Sex not recorded, skull, registered in S Register 12 August 1893 from the Old Collection. The S Register has an annotation that there was no skin.

Condition. Incomplete cranium missing braincase, both zygomatic arches, left upper last molar; both dentaries have chipped angular processes, and missing coronoid processes.

Type locality. Near Derby, Western Australia ( Mahoney, 1965).

Comments. Apparently described from one specimen, obtained by T. H. Bowyer-Bower in 1886. See Mahoney (1965) for reasoning behind holotype determination, and photographs and detailed measurements of the skull and dentition.