Coryphomys buehleri Schaub, 1937:2
Buehler’s giant rat, Buhler’s coryphomys, Buhler's rat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Coryphomys bühleri Schaub, 1937 (orthographic error)
Conservation Status
Extinct
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Timor Island, Indonesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: NMB A.P.1.
Referred material:
A partial list of referred material can be found in (Aplin & Helgen, 2010).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Schaub, S. (1937). Ein neuer Muridae von Timor. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 48: 1-6.
Other references:
Aplin, K. P. and Helgen, K. M. (2010). Quaternary Murid Rodents of Timor Part I: New Material of Coryphomys buehleri Schaub, 1937, and Description of a Second Species of the Genus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 341, 80 pp.
Chiozza, F. (2008). Coryphomys buehleri. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 May 2012.
Chiozza, F. 2019. Coryphomys buehleri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T5414A22416034. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T5414A22416034.en. Downloaded on 26 June 2021.
Glover, I. (1986). Archaeology in eastern Timor, 1966-67. Terra Australis 11: 1-241.
Hooijer, D. A. (1965). Note on Coryphomys bühleri Schaub, a gigantic murine rodent from Timor. Israel Journal of Science 14: 128-133.
Jackson, Stephen M., Travouillon, Kenny J., Beck, Robin, M. D., Archer, Michael, Hand, Suzanne J., Helgen, Kristofer M., Fitzgerald, Erich M. G. and Price, Gilbert J. (2024). An annotated checklist of Australasian fossil mammals. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 48(4): 548-746. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2024.2434062
Louys, Julien, Sue O’Connor, Shimona Kealy, Stuart Hawkins, and Kenneth P. Aplin. (2023). Late Quaternary mammal introduction and extinction records from archaeological cave deposits in Timor-Leste. In Contributions to Mammalogy and Zooarchaeology of Wallacea, ed. K. M. Helgen and R. K. Jones. Records of the Australian Museum 75(5): 765-786. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1787
Musser, Guy Graham. (1981). The giant rat of Flores and its relatives east of Borneo and Bali. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 169: 71-175.
Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. In: D.E. Wilson and D.A. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World: a geographic and taxonomic reference, pp. 894-1531. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.
Stehlin, H. G. and Schaub, S. (1951). Die Trigonodontie der simplicidentaten Nager. Basel: Birkhäuser, 385 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]
Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. 2005 Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Third edition. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.