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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Komodomys rintjanus
(Sody, 1941)
.
Treubia, 18:310
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Indonesia
,
Nusa Tenggara
, Pulau Rintja, Lohoboeaja
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Nusa Tenggara
: islands of Rintja, Padar, and
Flores
; probably occurs on other islands in the Lesser Sunda chain (e.g., Komodo).
COMMENTS: Dental morphology tied
Komodomys
to
Papagomys
,
another endemic of
Nusa Tenggara
found only on
Flores
Isl (
Musser, 1981c
;
Musser and Boeadi, 1980
).