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 ernstmayri
Rümmler, 1932
.
Das Aquarium, 6:134
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Papua New Guinea
,
Morobe Prov.
, Huon Peninsula, Saruwaged Mts, Ogeramnang,
1785 m
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Papua New Guinea
(above
1250
m in
Owen Stanley Range from Mt Dayman west to Kratke Mts and Purosa region in
Eastern Highlands Prov.
, then northeast to mountains on Huon Peninsula; probably occurs farther west in Papuan Central Cordillera, but limits unknown); Irian Jaya (Arfak Mts only; limits unknown).
COMMENTS: A distinctive species distinguished from
L. elegans
by the diagnostic and distributional traits enumerated by
Rümmler (1932)
. It is endemic to mountain rainforest and in Owen Stanley Range replaces
L. elegans
at elevations above
1000 m
.