Solomys spriggsarum Flannery & Wickler, 1990:133
Buka naked-tailed rat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: >4,700 BC
Distribution & Habitat
Buka Island, Solomon Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: AM F78235 ("right maxillary fragment...")
Type locality: Buka Island, Solomon Islands
Referred Material:
Substantial referred material has been excavated, see original description.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Flannery, Timothy F. and Wickler, S. (1990). Quaternary murids (Rodentia: Muridae) from Buka Island, Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of two new species. Australian Mammalogy 13: 127-139.
Other references:
Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K.E., MacPhee, R.D.E., Beck, R.M.D., Grenyer, R., Price, S.A., Vos, R.A., Gittleman, J.L. & Purvis, A. 2007. The delayed rise of present-day mammals. Nature 446, 507-512.
Fritz, S.A. & Purvis, A. 2010 Phylogenetic diversity does not capture body size variation at risk in the world's mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277, 2435-2441.
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
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]
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