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<emphasis bold="true" box="[892,1111,1761,1788]" italics="true" pageId="78" pageNumber="355">Hydromys lutrilla</emphasis>
Krefft
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<emphasis box="[869,1038,1803,1824]" italics="true" pageId="78" pageNumber="355">The Mammals of</emphasis>
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13, page xxxvii. (
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,1013,1867,1892]" pageId="78" pageNumber="355">Common name</emphasis>
. Water Rat.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,1000,1907,1932]" pageId="78" pageNumber="355">Current name</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis box="[1012,1265,1908,1932]" italics="true" pageId="78" pageNumber="355">Hydromys chrysogaster</emphasis>
É.
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; following Jackson &amp; Groves, 2015). Taxonomic status unresolved: a detailed taxonomic review of the extensive variation within
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<emphasis box="[1012,1265,1996,2020]" italics="true" pageId="78" pageNumber="355">Hydromys chrysogaster</emphasis>
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is needed, and two species could be present in south-eastern
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(Jackson &amp; Groves, 2015).
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Figure 33. AM M.5650, holotype skin of
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<emphasis box="[545,749,1530,1551]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="356">Hydromys lawnensis</emphasis>
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. (Photography by Sally Cowan).
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Figure 34. AM M.5650, holotype skull of
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<emphasis box="[1219,1421,1530,1551]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="356">Hydromys lawnensis</emphasis>
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. (Photography by Sally Cowan).
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. PA.125, by subsequent determination. Indeterminate sex, skin mount, part skull
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.
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in c. 1878 but no entry for locality, collector, donor or collection date. An entry in the notes column of the register, possibly written by Palmer, states: “drawing of this specimen by Angas, is referred to by Gould, is preserved in Australian Museum”. Donated by
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,235,1922,1946]" pageId="79" pageNumber="356">Condition</emphasis>
. Skin mount (part skull
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), missing upper incisors, snout area is damaged (parts of skin missing), tear in the right front limb, fracture in the proximal end of the tail. The sex could not be determined from the skin.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[794,947,1618,1642]" pageId="79" pageNumber="356">Type locality</emphasis>
. Foreshore outside Elizabeth Bay House, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney (
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), NSW,
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[794,917,1690,1714]" pageId="79" pageNumber="356">Comments</emphasis>
.
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states that
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<emphasis box="[1216,1290,1690,1714]" italics="true" pageId="79" pageNumber="356">lutrilla</emphasis>
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was known from a single specimen and
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states that is was known from a single half grown specimen.
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remarked that, not having examined the specimen, he was unable to determine if it was a valid species. Although Gould attributed discovery of this entity to Macleay, Gould reproduced a description provided by Krefft and authorship is therefore attributed to Krefft (Article 50.1, the
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). The specimen currently believed to be the
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is fully furred. Although this is inconsistent with the remark by
<bibRefCitation author="Krefft, G" box="[794,947,1983,2007]" pageId="79" pageNumber="356" refId="ref135881" refString="Krefft, G. 1871 a. The Mammals of Australia. Illustrated by Harriett Scott and Helena Forde for the Council of Education; with a short account of all the species hitherto described. Sydney: Government Printer. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 132957" type="book" year="1871">Krefft (1871a)</bibRefCitation>
that “the original specimen in the Australian Museum has lost much of the fur …”, it is possible that the skin mount has been repaired. Krefft in
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gave four body measurements of the
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which are a good fit with PA.125, given the relatively imprecise nature of the characters and possible skin shrinkage. These are (our measurements in brackets): “length from tip to tip”,
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(16¾ inches); length of tail about
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(
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); “length of face to base of ear”,
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(
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); length of tarsi and toes,
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(pes length without claws,
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=
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).
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Mahoney &amp; Richardson (1988) list 13 names under
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<emphasis box="[166,301,445,469]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="357">chrysogaster</emphasis>
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but do not discuss subspecific status. Troughton (e.g., 1941; 1974) recognized eight species of
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in
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, including
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<emphasis box="[433,703,503,527]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="357">H. chrysogaster lutrilla</emphasis>
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, one of several subspecies he recognized of
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<emphasis box="[577,754,533,557]" italics="true" pageId="80" pageNumber="357">H. chrysogaster</emphasis>
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. In the absence of any comprehensive taxonomic studies during the past 50 years, modern authors have defaulted to treating “
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” as a single variable species without recognizing subspecies, most of which are treated as invalid.
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