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)
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755
book chapter
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Rattus bontanus
Thomas, 1921
.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 7:246
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Indonesia
,
SW
Sulawesi
, Mt Bonthain (Gunung Lampobatang),
2000 ft
.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from
600-2500 m
on the slopes of Gunung Lampobatang, SW Sulawesi.
COMMENTS:
Sody (1941)
questionably included this species in
Taeromys,
Laurie and Hill (1954)
, and
Musser (1984)
treated it as a subspecies of
R.
xanthurus
,
but
Musser and Holden (1991)
contended that it is a distinct species most closely related to
R.
foramineus
,
which occurs in coastal lowlands of the southern end of the SW peninsula of
Sulawesi
.