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<document ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098" ID-ISBN="1-56098-217-9" ID-Zenodo-Dep="7353098" approvalRequired="3" approvalRequired_for_document="2" approvalRequired_for_originalDoi="1" checkinTime="1667534070963" checkinUser="GgServerImporter" docAuthor="Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton" docDate="1993" docId="03D087AEFF85FFCFFEF603BCF945FDD2" docLanguage="en" docName="MammalSpeciesofTheWorld.1993.Muridae.501-755.pdf.imd" docOrigin="Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press" docTitle="Melomys lanosus Thomas 1922" docType="treatment" docVersion="3" lastPageNumber="616" masterDocId="FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3" masterDocTitle="Order Rodentia - Family Muridae" masterLastPageNumber="755" masterPageNumber="501" pageNumber="616" updateTime="1669256938330" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Order Rodentia - Family Muridae</mods:title>
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Guy G. Musser</mods:namePart>
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Michael D. Carleton</mods:namePart>
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<mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>
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<mods:dateIssued>1993</mods:dateIssued>
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<mods:publisher>Smithsonian Institution Press</mods:publisher>
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<mods:placeTerm>Washington and London</mods:placeTerm>
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<mods:roleTerm>Editor</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Don E. Wilson</mods:namePart>
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<mods:roleTerm>Editor</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>DeeAnn M. Reeder</mods:namePart>
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<mods:titleInfo>
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<mods:title>Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)</mods:title>
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<mods:start>501</mods:start>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="ISBN">1-56098-217-9</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Zenodo-Dep">7353098</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284365" ID-Zenodo-Dep="7284365" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03D087AEFF85FFCFFEF603BCF945FDD2" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087AEFF85FFCFFEF603BCF945FDD2" lastPageId="116" lastPageNumber="616" pageId="115" pageNumber="616">
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<treatmentCitation author="Thomas" authority="Thomas, 1922" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1922" box="[261,1384,2234,2272]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" journal="Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 9" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="263" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lanosus" title="Melomys lanosus" volume="9" year="1922">
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<taxonomicName authority="Thomas, 1922" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1922" box="[261,791,2234,2272]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lanosus">
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<emphasis box="[261,538,2234,2272]" italics="true" pageId="115" pageNumber="616">Melomys lanosus</emphasis>
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Thomas, 1922
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</taxonomicName>
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<bibCitation author="Thomas" box="[810,1384,2234,2272]" journal="Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 9" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" pagination="263" title="Melomys lanosus" volume="9" year="1922">Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 9, 9:263</bibCitation>
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.
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<subSubSection box="[302,1784,2276,2314]" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph blockId="115.[261,1872,2234,2773]" box="[302,1784,2276,2314]" pageId="115" pageNumber="616">
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TYPE LOCALITY:
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New
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<collectingCountry box="[641,767,2276,2314]" name="Guinea-Bissau" pageId="115" pageNumber="616">Guinea</collectingCountry>
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, Irian Jaya, Doormanpad-bivak (
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<geoCoordinate box="[1338,1447,2276,2314]" degrees="3" direction="south" minutes="30" orientation="latitude" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" precision="925" value="-3.5">3°30'S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate box="[1468,1622,2276,2314]" degrees="138" direction="east" minutes="30" orientation="longitude" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" precision="925" value="138.5">138°30'E</geoCoordinate>
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),
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<elevation box="[1653,1774,2276,2314]" pageId="115" pageNumber="616">2400 m</elevation>
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</materialsCitation>
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.
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<subSubSection pageId="115" pageNumber="616" type="distribution">
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DISTRIBUTION: Mountain forests (not recorded below
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) of N New
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<collectingCountry box="[1518,1645,2318,2356]" name="Guinea-Bissau" pageId="115" pageNumber="616">Guinea</collectingCountry>
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; from the type locality in Irian Jaya eastward along Central Cordillera through the Telefomin region, Schrader Range, Kratke Mts, and Mt Hagen region to the Wau area of
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<collectingCountry name="Papua New Guinea" pageId="115" pageNumber="616">Papua New Guinea</collectingCountry>
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; also from Cyclops Range in the N coastal mts; not known from Huon Peninsula.
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<subSubSection box="[302,687,2526,2564]" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" type="synonym_list">
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<paragraph blockId="115.[261,1872,2234,2773]" box="[302,687,2526,2564]" pageId="115" pageNumber="616">
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SYNONYMS:
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Hinton" baseAuthorityYear="1943" box="[487,681,2526,2564]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="shawmayeri">shawmayeri</taxonomicName>
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.
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</emphasis>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="116" lastPageNumber="617" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" type="discussion">
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<paragraph blockId="115.[261,1872,2234,2773]" lastBlockId="116.[370,1862,296,545]" lastPageId="116" lastPageNumber="617" pageId="115" pageNumber="616">
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COMMENTS: Once treated as a subspecies of
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<emphasis box="[1042,1362,2568,2606]" italics="true" pageId="115" pageNumber="616">
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[1042,1213,2568,2606]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="levipes">M. levipes</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1922" box="[1233,1357,2568,2606]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lanosus">lanosus</taxonomicName>
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,
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</emphasis>
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as
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<bibRefCitation author="Flannery, T. F." box="[1423,1782,2568,2606]" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" refId="ref103155" refString="Flannery, T. F. 1990 b. Mammals of New Guinea. Robert Brown and Associates, 439 pp." year="1990">Flannery (1990b:230)</bibRefCitation>
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noted, is a separate species. It is unrelated to
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<emphasis box="[1178,1355,2609,2648]" italics="true" pageId="115" pageNumber="616">
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[1178,1349,2609,2648]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="levipes">M. levipes</taxonomicName>
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,
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but instead is phylogenetically allied with
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<emphasis box="[881,1089,2650,2690]" italics="true" pageId="115" pageNumber="616">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1922" box="[881,1084,2650,2690]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="115" pageNumber="616" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rattoides">M. rattoides</taxonomicName>
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,
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</emphasis>
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a larger-bodied species that displaces it in lower altitudes. This close association was also reflected in Menzies' (1990) similarity coefficient analysis. Our study of specimens in the American Museum of Natural History revealed that
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1922" box="[751,1027,296,336]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="116" pageNumber="617" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lanosus">
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<emphasis box="[751,1027,296,336]" italics="true" pageId="116" pageNumber="617">Melomys lanosus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1922" box="[1115,1314,296,336]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="116" pageNumber="617" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rattoides">
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<emphasis box="[1115,1314,296,336]" italics="true" pageId="116" pageNumber="617">M. rattoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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share derived traits (only one pair of teats, and the derived cephalic arterial circulation and its osseous reflection in the cranium; see figures in
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<bibRefCitation author="Musser, G. G. & L. R. Heaney" box="[844,1284,381,419]" pageId="116" pageNumber="617" refId="ref252622" refString="Musser, G. G., and L. R. Heaney. 1992. Philippine rodents: Definitions of Tarsomys and Limnomys plus a preliminary assessment of phylogenetic patterns among native Philippine murines (Murinae, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 211: 1 - 138." year="1992">Musser and Heaney, 1992</bibRefCitation>
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) not found in any other species of
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<emphasis box="[416,571,423,462]" italics="true" pageId="116" pageNumber="617">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1922" box="[416,561,423,462]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="116" pageNumber="617" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Melomys</taxonomicName>
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.
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</emphasis>
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Any systematic revision of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1922" box="[1055,1199,423,462]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="116" pageNumber="617" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[1055,1199,423,462]" italics="true" pageId="116" pageNumber="617">Melomys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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will have to determine whether these two species are members of that genus, which seems unlikely. Flannery listed
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Hinton" baseAuthorityYear="1943" box="[370,562,506,545]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="116" pageNumber="617" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="shawmayeri">
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<emphasis box="[370,562,506,545]" italics="true" pageId="116" pageNumber="617">shawmayeri</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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as a synonym of
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<emphasis box="[866,1076,506,545]" italics="true" pageId="116" pageNumber="617">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1922" box="[866,1069,506,545]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="116" pageNumber="617" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rattoides">M. rattoides</taxonomicName>
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,
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</emphasis>
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but
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<typeStatus box="[1156,1306,506,545]" pageId="116" pageNumber="617">holotype</typeStatus>
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is example of
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<emphasis box="[1561,1750,506,545]" italics="true" pageId="116" pageNumber="617">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1922" box="[1561,1740,506,545]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="116" pageNumber="617" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lanosus">M. lanosus</taxonomicName>
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.
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</emphasis>
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