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<figureCitation box="[78,160,512,562]" captionStart="Plate 41: Muridae" captionStartId="91.[82,112,3184,3209]" captionTargetBox="[15,2720,17,3646]" captionTargetPageId="90" captionText="248. Long-footed Tree Mouse (Lorentzimys nouhuwysi), 249. Lesser Small-toothed Rat (Macruromys elegans), 250. Greater Small-toothed Rat (Macruromys major), 251. De Vis’s Woolly Rat (Mallomys aroaensis), 252. Alpine Woolly Rat (Mallomys gunung), 253. Subalpine Woolly Rat (Mallomys istapantap), 254. Rothschild’s Woolly Rat (Mallomys rothschildi), 255. Highland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Mammelomys lanosus), 256. Lowland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Mammelomys rattoides), 258. Long-tailed Talaud Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys talaudium), 259. Dusky Seram Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys aerosus), 260. Manusela Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys fraterculus), 262. Obi Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys obiensis), 263. Pavel’s Seram Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys paveli), 264. Rossel Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys arcium), 265. Bannister’s Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys bannisteri), 266. Fawn-footed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys cervinipes), 267. Yamdena Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys cooperae), 268. Dollman’s Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys dollmani), 269. Snow Mountains Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys frigicola), 270. Riama Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys howi), 271. White-bellied Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys leucogaster), 272. Papua Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys lutullus), 273. Manus Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys matambuai), 274. Black-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys rufescens), 275. Bougainville Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys bougainville), 276. Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys burtoni), 277. Cape York Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys capensis)" figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6887484" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6887484/files/figure.png" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">270.</figureCitation>
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<vernacularName box="[177,819,512,562]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Riama Island Mosaic-tailed Rat</vernacularName>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Kitchener" authorityYear="1996" box="[869,1131,512,562]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="howi">
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<emphasis box="[869,1131,512,562]" italics="true" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Melomys howi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[77,153,580,601]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">French:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName box="[162,340,580,601]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Mélomys de How</vernacularName>
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/
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[360,450,580,601]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">German:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName box="[460,733,580,601]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Riama-Mosaikschwanzratte</vernacularName>
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/
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[755,846,580,601]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Spanish:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName box="[856,1172,580,601]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Rata de cola moteada de Riama</vernacularName>
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<paragraph blockId="97.[77,1172,512,643]" box="[77,560,622,643]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[77,324,622,643]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Other common names:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName box="[334,560,622,643]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Riama Island Melomys</vernacularName>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[689,845,694,719]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Taxonomy.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName authority="Kitchener, 1996" authorityName="Kitchener" authorityYear="1996" box="[859,1275,694,719]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="howi">Melomys howi Kitchener, 1996</taxonomicName>
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,
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<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="3864424958" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Riama Island, Tanimbar Islands, Moluc-cas, Indonesia.</materialsCitation>
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<subSubSection pageId="97" pageNumber="697" type="discussion">
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G. G.Musser and M. D. Carleton in 2005 found
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Kitchener, in Kitchener & Suyanto" authorityYear="1996" box="[786,891,843,877]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="howi">M. howi</taxonomicName>
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to be similar to some M. cf.
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" box="[693,782,882,916]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lutillus">lutillus</taxonomicName>
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from Papua New Guinea and suggested that it belonged to the
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Gould" authorityYear="1852" box="[1114,1284,921,955]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cervinipes">M. cervinipes</taxonomicName>
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group, including
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Kitchener & Maryanto" authorityYear="1993" box="[953,1131,961,995]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bannisteri">M. bannisteri</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fraterculus">M. fraterculus</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" box="[780,920,1008,1033]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lutillus">M. lutillus</taxonomicName>
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, and
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1911" box="[1007,1154,1008,1033]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="obiensis">M. obiensis</taxonomicName>
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. In their 2017 morphometric analysis on skulls, P H. Fabre and colleagues found M. how: as-
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sociated with a group coon of
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Ramsay" baseAuthorityYear="1887" box="[583,723,1128,1153]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="burtoni">M. burtoni</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Gould" authorityYear="1852" box="[741,912,1128,1153]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cervinipes">M. cervinipes</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName box="[929,1079,1128,1153]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cooperae">M. cooperae</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1920" box="[1096,1277,1128,1153]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fraterculus">M. fraterculus</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Tate" authorityYear="1951" box="[80,228,1159,1193]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="frigicola">M. frigicola</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" box="[245,381,1159,1193]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lutillus">M. lutillus</taxonomicName>
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, and also “
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<taxonomicName box="[535,664,1159,1193]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="burton">M. burton</taxonomicName>
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?” from Halmahera. Monotypic.
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<caption ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6887466" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6887466" box="[79,712,1207,1232]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6887466/files/figure.png" inLine="true" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" startId="97.[79,251,1207,1232]" targetBox="[76,666,698,1110]" targetPageId="97">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[79,255,1207,1232]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Distribution.</emphasis>
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Riama I, S Moluccas, Indonesia.
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<subSubSection pageId="97" pageNumber="697" type="description">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[79,328,1246,1271]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Descriptive notes.</emphasis>
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Head—body 111-112 mm, tail 135-137, ear 15-2—15-5 mm, hindfeet 26-27 mm; weight 61-73 g. The Riama Island Mosaic-tailedRat is a
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of small body mass. Upperparts are tawny (yellow brown), head is cinnamon, and ventral area is grayish buff to pure white. Tail is of about same size as or slightly longer (121-123%) than head-body length, the scales flat and not sculptured, with three hairs per scale, andtail is bicolored, glaucous dorsally and pale gray ventrally. Feet are broad. There is a dark ring around eyes. Females have two pairs of mammae.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[80,191,1513,1547]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Habitat.</emphasis>
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Open low bushes beneath the patches of
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<taxonomicName box="[778,1146,1513,1547]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Casuarinaceae" genus="Casuarina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL,GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fagales" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Casuarinaceae">Casuarina (Casuarinaceae)</taxonomicName>
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trees 5 m tall, on coastal areas from sea level to 200 m.
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<paragraph blockId="97.[79,1288,1128,2019]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[80,342,1592,1626]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Food and Feeding.</emphasis>
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Riama Island Mosaic-tailed Rats have been seen to eat seeds in leaf litter beneath shrubs.
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<subSubSection pageId="97" pageNumber="697" type="breeding">
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<paragraph blockId="97.[79,1288,1128,2019]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[81,216,1671,1705]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Breeding.</emphasis>
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One female was pregnant with two embryos, and another lactating and with two placentalscars.
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<paragraph blockId="97.[79,1288,1128,2019]" box="[80,1150,1749,1783]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[80,315,1749,1783]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Activity patterns.</emphasis>
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Riama Island Mosaic-tailed Rats are diurnal and terrestrial.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[82,796,1789,1823]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Movements, Home range and Social organization.</emphasis>
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A group of 10-15 individuals was observed feeding by day for one hour in an area of ¢.5 m®,
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<subSubSection pageId="97" pageNumber="697" type="conservation">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[82,438,1868,1902]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Status and Conservation.</emphasis>
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Classified as Data Deficient in The IUCN Red List owing to absence of recent information on its distribution, threats, status, and ecology. The Riama Island Mosaic-tailed Rat is known only from three specimensat the type locality.
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<paragraph blockId="97.[79,1288,1128,2019]" box="[84,1151,1994,2019]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[84,236,1994,2019]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Bibliography.</emphasis>
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Fabre, Fitriana et al. (2017), Kitchener & Suyanto (1996), Musser & Carleton (2005).
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