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<emphasis id="C1FAF5041F81DFECF6B71F5F011AF307" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Paruromys dominator</emphasis>
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<treatmentCitation id="AE4AA427761E77ED5344968595EDC82F" author="Thomas" authority="Thomas 1921" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1921" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" journal="Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="244" pageNumber="1435" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dominator" title="Rattus dominator" volume="7" year="1921">
<taxonomicName id="E689E794857514A89659A34BC4823EFD" authority="Thomas 1921" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1921" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1435" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dominator">
<emphasis id="AB3F83C6D3EE030EDCD65656B6E72526" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">[Rattus] dominator</emphasis>
Thomas 1921
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="205D5AAF64149AC80321240ED7205B21" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1435">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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, N
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, Minahassa, Mt Masarang,
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(
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).
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<emphasis id="90B2CCDE3477C9882794185BAB6E6521" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1435">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
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Giant
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Rat
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.
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<emphasis id="D6FFB0FF3C782FD4B699320F185DB043" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1435">Synonyms:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="E7F79E68CADC5C5FA4FBA5DF21CB3A96" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Paruromys frosti</emphasis>
(Ellerman 1949)
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;
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<emphasis id="17D9C556645ACE0B43F3ADC84C658EA5" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Paruromys ursinus</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="D64E898DF22B57F0343B1466C6C5EFBF" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1435">Distribution:</emphasis>
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; Tropical evergreen lowland and montane rainforests throughout the island, from sea level to tree-line.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="220EB73B45E55787E9E59A703AE4DC5A" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1435">Conservation:</emphasis>
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Endangered as
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<emphasis id="92C76806A29E40DA82BAF964FCB438EE" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">P. ursinus</emphasis>
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, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).
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<subSubSection id="027D3B26FF12A2C4D6400C08DBB57847" pageNumber="1435" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="F158F956CA23AD7D21D2D1569548969C" pageNumber="1435">
<emphasis id="5A5FA38D90340A5B23EA3FFDFB28FBBB" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1435">Discussion:</emphasis>
<paragraph id="8C85C4F27856F7863387EDEC030C9E7E" pageNumber="1435">
<bibRefCitation id="4DADB04145A254340495AC2604775DBE" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; C. Newcomb" refId="ref252768" refString="Musser, G. G., and C. Newcomb. 1983. Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 174: 327 - 598." year="1983">Musser and Newcomb (1983)</bibRefCitation>
reviewed the taxonomic allocations of
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<emphasis id="72E4F0D1DF108285F812102CFEC874B3" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">dominator</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the time it was originally described as a species of
<taxonomicName id="CAC206CA371342DDF45369C04CD44953" authority="(Thomas, 1921 a)" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1921" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C3F51D0367F76122A4C4E0198611EC8E" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Rattus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A75076956E12392890BC091EBCEAB8A0" author="Thomas, O." refId="ref354634" refString="Thomas, O. 1921 a. On a new genus and species of shrew, and some new Muride from the East-Indian Archipelago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 7: 243 - 249." year="1921">
Thomas, 1921
<emphasis id="F7CB6C5E216F9D6646B44A30C17EF604" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">a</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, through its allocation to genus
<taxonomicName id="162CCA9D628DC0BB70D8D7CE04D743FF" authority="(Sody, 1941)" baseAuthorityName="Sody" baseAuthorityYear="1941" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Taeromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="15B10833A030669DA9044A1B7473D3AB" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Taeromys</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="9F00A8EA4AC7D2643E3A5343627237AB" author="Sody, H. J. V." refId="ref332599" refString="Sody, H. J. V. 1941. On a collection of rats from the Indo- Malayan and Indo- Australian regions (with descriptions of 43 new genera, species and subspecies). Treubia, 18: 255 - 325." year="1941">Sody, 1941</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and use as type-species of subgenus
<taxonomicName id="7A66F5299C951ACA58023EE737A5E704" authorityName="Ellerman" authorityYear="1954" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Paruromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="61B4DAEE4A83DE9F8EDD7EA65A1183EE" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Paruromys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="3005184784CD95B635B9B1A1DCE9A817" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1921" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B2EE594B6547A7DD87314FBE274F14BE" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Rattus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Ellerman,
<emphasis id="C3A70AC8D72B4DE96A6E77B2CAD69D0D" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">in</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A08730049281E2E6786A74A259A39558" author="Laurie, E. M. O. &amp; J. E. Hill" refId="ref205065" refString="Laurie, E. M. O., and J. E. Hill. 1954. List of land mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and adjacent islands 1758 - 1952. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 175 pp." year="1954">Laurie and Hill, 1954</bibRefCitation>
), up to its inclusion in subgenus
<taxonomicName id="9297044C6F7A5CD72FA44893D6531C51" baseAuthorityName="Jansa and Heaney" baseAuthorityYear="2001" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Bullimus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1C972D4400BA5F6BA693E055515AE8B5" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Bullimus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="66C09415478FF044C2920CE44929137F" authority="(Misonne, 1969)" baseAuthorityName="Misonne" baseAuthorityYear="1969" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="54E4A2E87A1E35CFDA678BAF2B721C9F" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Rattus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="CFE28CCCE261C57EDAD5594C88483998" author="Misonne, X." refId="ref243286" refString="Misonne, X. 1969. African and Indo-Australian Muridae: Evolutionary trends. Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Serie IN- 8, Sciences Zoologiques, 172: 1 - 219." year="1969">Misonne, 1969</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. Spermatozoal morphology of
<taxonomicName id="11FAED50540674A6470764D7057C334E" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1921" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dominator">
<emphasis id="40A454D201B9F413E4B2AF677026BA4E" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">P. dominator</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is unlike species of
<taxonomicName id="7D721E27A2711A5AF8751D9E834B2E4D" baseAuthorityName="Misonne" baseAuthorityYear="1969" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4FFD582368FB3B7878B441131DD37319" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Rattus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
or any other species for which data from spermatozoal morphology are available (
<bibRefCitation id="8E9B06658CEB697D46EE77251EAED1B4" author="Breed, W. G. &amp; G. G. Musser" refId="ref41526" refString="Breed, W. G., and G. G. Musser. 1991. Sulawesi and Philippine rodents (Muridae): A survey of spermatozoal morphology and its significance for phylogenetic inference. American Museum Novitates, 3003: 1 - 15." year="1991">Breed and Musser, 1991</bibRefCitation>
), and stomach morphology is also unique among sampled murines (
<bibRefCitation id="429FD6F227EEFD017C074C7B39022242" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; L. A. Durden" refId="ref252491" refString="Musser, G. G., and L. A. Durden. 2002. Sulawesi rodents: Description of a new genus and species of Murinae (Muridae, Rodentia) and its parasitic new species of sucking louse (Insecta, Anoplura). American Museum Novitates, 3368: 50 pp." year="2002">Musser and Durden, 2002</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation id="8B227D15D54390315534F435F0D1981C" author="Musser, G. G." refId="ref251113" refString="Musser, G. G. 1971 b. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 94. Taxonomic status of Rattus tatei and Rattus frosti, two taxa of murid rodents known from middle Celebes. American Museum Novitates, 2454: 1 - 19." year="1971">
Musser (1971
<emphasis id="D1306E5ED70B72187D4DF10E48FE2CBB" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">b</emphasis>
)
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documented the association of Ellermans
<taxonomicName id="E217D9904AE2DBF4A291328DF04A7F9C" baseAuthorityName="Ellerman" baseAuthorityYear="1949" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Paruromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="frosti">
<emphasis id="0027ED3D4B3C3C84F87FF88C9F3F7210" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">frosti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with
<taxonomicName id="6518092A8082481CA4FBD1BA734407E2" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1921" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Rattus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dominator">
<emphasis id="CE51B572E352F8FE0D4A2F0BA26C4C11" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">P. dominator</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Sodys (1941)
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<emphasis id="15DEA2EF0C109FFC9E05924F868F2879" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">ursinus</emphasis>
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, based upon specimens from the upper slopes of
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on the SE peninsula of
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, was described as a subspecies of
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<emphasis id="7BB9CCA46CAF6AE479B0CB92AB690497" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Taeromys dominator</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, later included in the synonymy of that species (
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), and subsequently recognized as a separate species (
<bibRefCitation id="235F94710DA19AFC73C3AD45839BA913" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; M. E. Holden" refId="ref252678" refString="Musser, G. G., and M. E. Holden. 1991. Sulawesi rodents (Muridae: Murinae): Morphological and geographical boundaries of species in the Rattus hoffmanni group and a new species from Pulau Peleng. Pp. 322 - 413, in Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman (T. A. Griffiths and D. Klingener, eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 206: 1 - 432." year="1991">Musser and Holden, 1991</bibRefCitation>
;
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). Recent multivariate analysis of cranial and dental traits by Musser (ms.), however, support the earlier inclusion of
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in
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<emphasis id="3B1706E408D7EA73C3A006C0C1243DDC" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">P. dominator</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="24B200BB8FDF8CA55C34115D9B5BEE20" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Paruromys dominator</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="0442F54E6680F46212559BD1847836B1" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Maxomys muschenbroekii</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="0C4E53CA18B6FA978671A545B25074F7" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Rattus hoffmanni</emphasis>
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are the only Sulawesian murines occurring over the entire island in most forest formations (
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).
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<emphasis id="E28BDD1673C0ABEABDDA71B74A831D3E" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Paruromys dominator</emphasis>
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is represented by subfossil fragments (Holocene) from lowlands of the SW peninsula (
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) and by two lower molars recovered from late Pliocene-early Pleistocene sediments in the Walanae Formation (
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). This is the earliest record of a murine from
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and joins a distinctive extinct Pleistocene fauna consisiting of giant tortoises, crocodiles, the pig
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<emphasis id="AB4303D42C8EDEAD579EE52A5FD82BE2" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Celebochoerus</emphasis>
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, and the elephants
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<emphasis id="5BABD0157569FEA2AE9A5A3531DAF9F7" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Stegodon sompoensis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="758C5B75F3D6A67D1D62AE03BBED251A" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Elephas celebensis</emphasis>
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; except for
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<emphasis id="5D774571759088812AC754E2710EB3DF" italics="true" pageNumber="1435">Paruromys</emphasis>
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, this unique assemblage is unlike the modern fauna (see review by
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den Bergh et al., 2001
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)
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.
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