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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FFB01514FDAFF9319A468CF0" bold="true" box="[582,808,1717,1744]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="243">species inquirenda</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FFB01514FF7EF97E98EB8D31" box="[151,389,1786,1809]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="243">Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.</emphasis>
(ser. 1) 8 (1), 18, plate 11, figs 15. (
<date id="48381021FFB01514FD14F97E9AF48D32" box="[765,922,1786,1810]" pageId="42" pageNumber="243" value="1883-06-19">19th June 1883</date>
)
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Description read at the
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meeting of the LSNSW.
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FFB01514FF7EF80C982F8D82" bold="true" box="[151,321,1928,1954]" pageId="42" pageNumber="243">Current name</emphasis>
. None, a giant rat.
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FFB01514FF2EF82898F68DE6" bold="true" box="[199,408,1964,1990]" pageId="42" pageNumber="243">Taxonomic status</emphasis>
. We depart from previous taxonomic assessments and regard
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), the nomenclatural status and biological validity of which needs to be assessed by a detailed morphological revision of
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species.
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In the most recent revision of
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FFB11515FB20FF139C4F8A90" box="[1225,1313,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="244">Uromys</emphasis>
,
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tentatively treated it as a subspecies of the Mottled-tailed Rat
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FFB11515FBEBFF3F9DBA8AF5" box="[1026,1236,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="244">U. caudimaculatus</emphasis>
(
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)
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, as did
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. Throughout the 20th century considered a synonym of various names applied to New Guinean forms of
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FFB11515FF17FE8798388B3C" box="[254,342,259,284]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="244">Uromys</emphasis>
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(
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;
<bibRefCitation id="58174B10FFB11515FDE4FE879B108B3D" author="Tate, G. H. H." box="[525,638,259,285]" pageId="43" pageNumber="244" pagination="501 - 728" refId="ref40499" refString="Tate, G. H. H. (1936) Some Muridae of the Indo-Australian Region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 72 (6), 501 - 728." type="journal article" year="1936">Tate 1936</bibRefCitation>
;
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;
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), all currently treated as synonyms of
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FFB11515FF7EFEA398C98B61" box="[151,423,295,321]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="244">Uromys caudimaculatus</emphasis>
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. The latter is known to contain a number of currently unrecognised species (
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Helgen
<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FFB11515FA8DFEA39CF38B61" box="[1380,1437,295,321]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="244">et al.</emphasis>
2008
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).
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.
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Ramsay described a dried skin and skull but did not indicate the sex or identify the collection in which the specimen resided. The
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has not been reported since the original description.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FFB11515FF2EFE3398308BF0" bold="true" box="[199,350,438,465]" pageId="43" pageNumber="244">Type locality</emphasis>
. Unknown, not given in original description. Usually cited as the island of New
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as implied by the species name but the collector and locality remain unknown and the specimen could have originated from anywhere in the Australian region.
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FFB11515FF2EFDA69821881C" bold="true" box="[199,335,546,572]" pageId="43" pageNumber="244">Comments.</emphasis>
Ramsay apparently based his description of this large rodent on a single skin with skull. We have not located any material that could be Ramsays original specimen. Although there is no specific indication that the
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was ever in Macleays Collection, this remains a possibility as most mammal specimens have limited associated data.
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stated that the type had disappeared, perhaps based on correspondence with either the AM or MAMU. Troughton searched the MAMU on at least two occasions but failed to locate the
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(
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).
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and
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were also unable to locate it either in the AM or the MAMU. Although Ramsay did not indicate in which collection he saw the specimen, the introductory comments to his paper, as noted by
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, clearly reveal that it could have belonged to any number of private collectors or traders in natural history specimens who passed through Sydney, in addition to the Macleay Collection and the AM. Had the specimen been in a private collection it could have subsequently been sold or exchanged to other collections locally and abroad. We have not found any reference to this taxon, either in the MAMU documentation or in the AM Registers (
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), but Ramsay did not assign a registration number to all mammal specimens upon which he based new species descriptions.
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