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<emphasis id="5FAB5BF77C213147789224FDFDC02618" italics="true" pageNumber="1374">Melomys arcium</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="09B4CFA207B2363107F0617A6EE60F99" italics="true" pageNumber="1374">[Melomys] arcium</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="D845F735561C34B934CFE6F94547BD7E" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1374">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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, Louisiade Arch., Rossel Isl.
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<emphasis id="9129EADD48DEE2F6887CAB980A353F3F" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1374">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="9813EBEAF52478E01814B0C95802E467" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1374">Distribution:</emphasis>
Endemic to Rossel Isl,
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50-
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<emphasis id="2C1358DABB1C441EC688FD3969CC58D0" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1374">Discussion:</emphasis>
Originally described as a species of
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, treated as a subspecies of
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<emphasis id="D802069E4289FEA70C40714DECA163D4" italics="true" pageNumber="1374">M. leucogaster</emphasis>
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by Rümmler (1938),
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, and Flannery (1995
<emphasis id="67697603F6C75FDDD3D933FB83B85AD8" italics="true" pageNumber="1374">b</emphasis>
), but retained as a species by
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and
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.
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<emphasis id="B1E153A85B5DFA8BC21C72A49CED78FF" italics="true" pageNumber="1374">Melomys arcium</emphasis>
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is closely related to
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<emphasis id="1A47FFAB58099651CD2FB277E02DFC24" italics="true" pageNumber="1374">M. leucogaster</emphasis>
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(
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, and our study of the
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and
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159597-159600), and Flannery (1995
<emphasis id="9AC9DE3B1771DBDFFAD46BE51FA2AEAF" italics="true" pageNumber="1374">b</emphasis>
:135) wrote that although closely related to
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<emphasis id="EAD416527D6FDB6923BC45B846F74D19" italics="true" pageNumber="1374">M. leucogaster</emphasis>
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, it may represent &quot;a distinct species.&quot; Flannery (1995
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:135) noted that most islands off the E coast of
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in
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have been heavily surveyed and neither
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<emphasis id="B0EB2777A67DCBF5547A75C63CA81F2A" italics="true" pageNumber="1374">M. leucogaster</emphasis>
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nor
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<emphasis id="3BC4FD3871E657E3B0ECDEE0B8E96947" italics="true" pageNumber="1374">M. arcium</emphasis>
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has been found, &quot;Therefore it seems likely that it is found only on Rossel among the
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Islands. This is very unusual, because Rossel is the most distant of the Louisiade Group from New
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. Presumably, it did exist previously on other islands of the group, but has become extinct on all except Rossel.&quot;.
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