Sommeromys macrorhinos Musser & Durden, 2002
Sommer’s Sulawesi rat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 2 August 1973
Rediscovered in 2011
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Sulawesi (=Celebes), Indonesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Musser, G. G. and Durden, L. A. (2002). Sulawesi rodents: description of a new genus and species of Murinae (Muridae, Rodentia) and its parasitic new species of sucking louse (Insecta, Anoplura). American Museum Novitates. 3368: 1-50.
Other references:
Achmadi, Anang Setiawan, Rowe, Kevin C. and Esselstyn, Jacob A. (2014). New records of two rarely encountered, endemic rats (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae) from Gunung Gandangdewata, West Sulawesi Province. Treubia 41: 51-60.
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.
Musser, G., Lunde, D. and Ruedas, L. (2008). Sommeromys macrorhinos. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 24 May 2015.
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