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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Haeromys minahassae
(Thomas, 1896)
.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 18:247
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Indonesia
,
Sulawesi
, NE
Sulawesi
, Minahassa, Rurukan
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Sulawesi
; recorded only from the NE peninsula and central core (
Musser, 1990
).
COMMENTS: External, cranial, and dental features clearly distinguish
Sulawesi
species from those on Borneo and
Palawan
. Two species occur in C
Sulawesi
, one restricted to tropical lowland evergreen rain forest, the other (yet to be named and described) found only in montane rain forest (
Musser, 1990
;
Musser and Holden, 1991
). Karyotype is primitive, spermatozoal morphology is distinctive (
Musser, 1990
;
Breed and Musser, 1991
).