Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Author
Guy G. Musser
Author
Michael D. Carleton
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
501
755
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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Leptomys signatus
Tate and Archbold, 1938
.
Am. Mus. Novit., 982:2
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Papua New Guinea
, Western Prov., Sturt Isl Camp, Fly River (N bank), near Fairfax Isis, sea level
.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality along lower Fly
River
; limits unknown.
COMMENTS: The diagnostic traits
Tate and Archbold (1938)
used to separate this species from the other two identify a lowland population of
Leptomys
that shows no morphological intergradation with samples of either
L. elegans
or
L. ernstmayri
.
This species is still known only by the four examples in the type series.