Rattus bontanus Thomas, 1921:246
Bonthain rat, Southwestern xanthurus rat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Rattus xanthurus bontanus Thomas, 1921:246; Rattus foramineus Sody, 1941
Conservation Status
Extinct
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Sulawesi (southwestern), Indonesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Thomas, Oldfield. (1921). On a new genus and species of shrew, and some new Muride from the East-Indian Archipelago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 7: 243-249.
Other references:
Freudenthal, M. and Martín-Suárez, E. (2013). Estimating body mass of fossil rodents. Scripta Geologica 145: 1-130. [0.239 kg min. mass estimate]
Laurie, E. M. O., and J. E. Hill. 1954. List of land mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and adjacent
islands 1758-1952. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 175 pp.
Musser, G. G. (1984). Identities of subfossil rats from caves in southwestern Sulawesi. Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia 8: 61-94.
Musser, G., Aplin, K. & Lunde, D. (2008). Rattus bontanus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 16 September 2012.
Musser, G. G., and M. E. Holden. 1991. Sulawesi rodents (Muridae: Murinae): Morphological and geographical boundaries of species in the Rattus hoffmanni group and a new species from Pulau Peleng. Pp. 322-413, in Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman (T. A. Griffiths and D. Klingener, eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 206: 1-432.
Silva, M. B. and Downing, J. A. (1995). CRC handbook of mammalian body masses. CRC Press: 1-359.
Sody, H. J. V. 1941. On a collection of rats from the Indo- Malayan and Indo- Australian regions (with descriptions of 43 new genera, species and subspecies). Treubia, 18:255-325.