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<document ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4659332" ID-GBIF-Dataset="0c7614b2-dba9-4640-b42c-348382dfe59b" ID-GBIF-Taxon="180789255" ID-ISSN="0067-1975" ID-Zenodo-Dep="4659332" checkinTime="1617226809017" checkinUser="felipe" docAuthor="Groves, C. P. & Flannery, Tim F." docDate="1994" docId="DD3387ECFFD0665A76C33DA3F9D1FA74" docLanguage="en" docName="RecAustMus.46.2.145-169.pdf.imf" docOrigin="Records of the Australian Museum 46 (2)" docSource="https://journals.australian.museum/groves-and-flannery-1994-rec-aust-mus-462-145169/" docStyle="DocumentStyle:D3147822FB22E0797CFA40BA2FBFB595.2:RecAustMus.1986-1997.journal_article" docStyleId="D3147822FB22E0797CFA40BA2FBFB595" docStyleName="RecAustMus.1986-1997.journal_article" docStyleVersion="2" docTitle="Uromys hadrourus" docType="treatment" docVersion="5" lastPageNumber="154" masterDocId="210AFF94FFD96653775A3829FF9EFFD1" masterDocTitle="A revision of the genus Uromys Peters, 1867 (Muridae: Mammalia) with descriptions of two new species" masterLastPageNumber="169" masterPageNumber="145" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" updateTime="1632022083230" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>A revision of the genus Uromys Peters, 1867 (Muridae: Mammalia) with descriptions of two new species</mods:title>
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Groves, C. P.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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<mods:namePart>Flannery, Tim F.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:title>Records of the Australian Museum</mods:title>
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<mods:date>1994</mods:date>
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<mods:number>1994-07-28</mods:number>
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<mods:detail type="volume">
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<mods:number>46</mods:number>
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<mods:number>2</mods:number>
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<mods:start>145</mods:start>
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<mods:end>169</mods:end>
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<mods:url>https://journals.australian.museum/groves-and-flannery-1994-rec-aust-mus-462-145169/</mods:url>
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<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.12</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="GBIF-Dataset">0c7614b2-dba9-4640-b42c-348382dfe59b</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="ISSN">0067-1975</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Zenodo-Dep">4654701</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4659332" ID-GBIF-Taxon="180789255" ID-Zenodo-Dep="4659332" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:DD3387ECFFD0665A76C33DA3F9D1FA74" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/DD3387ECFFD0665A76C33DA3F9D1FA74" lastPageNumber="154" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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<subSubSection box="[409,1025,1418,1458]" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" type="nomenclature">
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<paragraph blockId="9.[409,1025,1418,1458]" box="[409,1025,1418,1458]" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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<heading box="[409,1025,1418,1458]" centered="true" fontSize="10" level="2" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" reason="2">
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<taxonomicName authority="(Winter, 1984)" baseAuthorityName="Winter" baseAuthorityYear="1984" box="[409,1025,1418,1458]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hadrourus">
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<emphasis box="[409,742,1418,1458]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">Uromys hadrourus</emphasis>
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(Winter, 1984)
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</taxonomicName>
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</heading>
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection box="[273,1020,1536,1572]" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" type="reference_group">
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<paragraph blockId="9.[273,1020,1536,1572]" box="[273,1020,1536,1572]" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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Synonyms.
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<taxonomicName authority="Winter, 1984" authorityName="Winter" authorityYear="1984" box="[469,1016,1536,1572]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hadrourus">
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<emphasis box="[469,781,1536,1572]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">Melomys hadrourus</emphasis>
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Winter, 1984
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</taxonomicName>
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.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="9" pageNumber="154" type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph blockId="9.[222,1205,1633,1797]" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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Type material.
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<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="3066985309" collectingDate="1973-11-16" collectionCode="QM" collectorName="J. Winter." elevation="1220" latitude="-16.158333" longLatPrecision="21" longitude="145.3625" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" specimenCode="J504" specimenCount="1" typeStatus="holotype">
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<typeStatus box="[542,703,1633,1669]" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">HOLOTYPE</typeStatus>
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,
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<collectionCode box="[730,789,1633,1669]" country="Australia" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35019" name="Queensland Museum" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" type="Museum">QM</collectionCode>
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<specimenCode box="[811,884,1633,1669]" collectionCode="QM" country="Australia" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35019" name="Queensland Museum" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" type="Museum">J504</specimenCode>
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, adult female, skin and torso in spirit, skull extracted, collected near the summit of Thomton Peak (
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<quantity box="[532,664,1717,1752]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.22" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" unit="m" value="1220.0">
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<elevation box="[532,664,1717,1752]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.22" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" unit="m" value="1220.0">1,220 m</elevation>
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</quantity>
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,
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<geoCoordinate box="[693,865,1717,1752]" degrees="16" direction="south" minutes="09" orientation="latitude" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" precision="15" seconds="30" value="-16.158333">16°09'30"S</geoCoordinate>
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<geoCoordinate box="[887,1084,1717,1752]" degrees="145" direction="east" minutes="21" orientation="longitude" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" precision="15" seconds="45" value="145.3625">145°21'45"E</geoCoordinate>
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) on
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<date pageId="9" pageNumber="154" value="1973-11-16">
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<collectingDate pageId="9" pageNumber="154" value="1973-11-16">16 Nov. 1973</collectingDate>
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</date>
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by
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<collectorName box="[473,628,1761,1797]" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">J. Winter.</collectorName>
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</materialsCitation>
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="9" pageNumber="154" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph blockId="9.[219,1204,1873,2694]" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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Revised diagnosis.
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Winter" baseAuthorityYear="1984" box="[638,964,1873,1912]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hadrourus">
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<emphasis box="[638,964,1873,1912]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">Uromys hadrourus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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differs from other species of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1867" box="[520,647,1919,1958]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[520,647,1919,1958]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">Uromys</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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as follows: i) smallest member of the genus; ii) white tail tip that lacks mottled interdigitation with dark proximal area of tail is unique; iii) the postorbital processes reduced; iv) braincase more inflated; v) anterolateral bullar spurs proportionally smaller.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="9" pageNumber="154" type="description">
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<paragraph blockId="9.[219,1204,1873,2694]" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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It resembles
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Krefft" baseAuthorityYear="1867" box="[513,836,2195,2234]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="caudimaculatus">
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<emphasis box="[513,836,2195,2234]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">U. caudimaculatus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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in its palate spine, palate form, rounded braincase, suppressed dentary tubercle, long incisive foramina (25% of palate length), small teeth, tail scales arranged in rings and longer than broad, and its general fawn colour and white feet with a marked brown dorsal line. It differs in its thinner preorbital bar, anteriorly angled lambdoidal suture, flattened interorbital region, less downwardly bowed zygomatic arches, reduced coronoid processes, lesser extent of white on the tail, broad feet, and restriction of white ventrally to the throat and chest.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="9" pageNumber="154" type="discussion">
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<paragraph blockId="9.[216,1206,2758,3165]" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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Discnssion.
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Winter" baseAuthorityYear="1984" box="[500,829,2758,2797]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hadrourus">
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<emphasis box="[500,829,2758,2797]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">Uromys hadrourus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is thus far known from only five museum specimens, all collected at above
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<quantity box="[219,345,2849,2889]" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.0" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" unit="m" value="300.0">300 m</quantity>
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on the Thornton Peak massif, north-eastern
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<collectingRegion box="[219,421,2895,2935]" country="Australia" name="Queensland" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">Queensland</collectingRegion>
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. This massif is isolated from other areas of upland rainforest by the Daintree and Bloomfield Rivers and sclerophyll forest.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="9.[216,1206,2758,3165]" lastBlockId="9.[1276,2258,383,1445]" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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Winter (1984) described
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Winter" baseAuthorityYear="1984" box="[741,980,3034,3073]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hadrourus">
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<emphasis box="[741,980,3034,3073]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">U. hadrourus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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as a large species of
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<emphasis box="[454,623,3080,3119]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1922" box="[454,618,3080,3119]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Melomys</taxonomicName>
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.
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</emphasis>
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Although he discussed the possibility that it may represent a small species of
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<emphasis box="[1283,1421,383,423]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1867" box="[1283,1415,383,423]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Uromys</taxonomicName>
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,
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</emphasis>
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he discounted this on the basis of its small size, noting nonetheless that the well-developed tail and thickened upper incisors of
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Winter" baseAuthorityYear="1984" box="[1908,2147,476,515]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hadrourus">
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<emphasis box="[1908,2147,476,515]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">U. hadrourus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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were striking similarities shared with the species of
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<emphasis box="[2119,2255,522,562]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1867" box="[2119,2250,522,562]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Uromys</taxonomicName>
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.
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</emphasis>
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Our cladistic analysis shows that
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Winter" baseAuthorityYear="1984" box="[1898,2131,568,607]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hadrourus">
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<emphasis box="[1898,2131,568,607]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">U. hadrourus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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shares many derived features with the species of
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<emphasis box="[2046,2184,614,653]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1867" box="[2046,2178,614,653]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Uromys</taxonomicName>
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,
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</emphasis>
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but none with other mosaic-tailed rats. Such features include the posterior lengthening of the bony palate and the large anterolateral spur of the bulla which are synapomorphic for this genus. Phenetically,
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Winter" baseAuthorityYear="1984" box="[2035,2257,798,838]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hadrourus">
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<emphasis box="[2035,2257,798,838]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">U. hadrourus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is very close to other species of
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<emphasis box="[1886,2103,844,884]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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U. (
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1867" box="[1955,2092,844,884]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Uromys</taxonomicName>
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)
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</emphasis>
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in skull shape, details of dental morphology and the thickness of the tail.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="9.[1276,2258,383,1445]" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Winter" baseAuthorityYear="1984" box="[1330,1657,992,1031]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hadrourus">
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<emphasis box="[1330,1657,992,1031]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">Uromys hadrourus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is clearly a member of the
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Krefft" baseAuthorityYear="1867" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="caudimaculatus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">U. caudimaculatus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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group of the subgenus
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<emphasis box="[2029,2167,1037,1077]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1867" box="[2029,2161,1037,1077]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Uromys</taxonomicName>
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,
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</emphasis>
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and even shares a few possibly derived features with
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<emphasis box="[2173,2207,1084,1123]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">U.</emphasis>
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c.
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Krefft" baseAuthorityYear="1867" box="[1278,1542,1130,1170]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="caudimaculatus">
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<emphasis box="[1278,1542,1130,1170]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">caudimaculatus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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which are not seen in
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<emphasis box="[1986,2020,1130,1170]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">U.</emphasis>
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c.
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<emphasis box="[2089,2256,1130,1170]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">papuanus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[1363,1397,1176,1215]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">U.</emphasis>
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c.
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<emphasis box="[1473,1699,1176,1215]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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<taxonomicName box="[1473,1694,1176,1215]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="multiplicatus">multiplicatus</taxonomicName>
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:
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</emphasis>
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notably the white feet with a vaguely expressed brown longitudinal line on the upper surface. Other similarities are, however, plesiomorphic, and on balance it seems likely that it is the sister species to the entire species
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<emphasis box="[1281,1615,1406,1445]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="154">
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Krefft" baseAuthorityYear="1867" box="[1281,1610,1406,1445]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="9" pageNumber="154" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="caudimaculatus">U. caudimaculatus</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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