Spelaeomys florensis Hooijer, 1957:306
Flores cave rat, Flores Island spelaeomys
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Flores, Indonesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hooijer, D. A. (1957). Three new giant prehistoric rats from Flores, Lesser Sunda Islands. Zoologische Mededelingen 35: 299-314.
Other references:
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
Elisa Locatelli, Rokus Awe Due, Gert D. van den Bergh and Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende. (2012). Pleistocene survivors and Holocene extinctions: The giant rats from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia). Quaternary International 281: 47-57.
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.
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.
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