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<figureCitation id="0EA24FE63447FFF6E462209072EE8FD8" box="[1365,1447,3225,3275]" captionStart="Plate 41: Muridae" captionStartId="91.[82,112,3184,3209]" captionTargetBox="[15,2720,17,3646]" captionTargetPageId="90" captionText="248. Long-footed Tree Mouse (Lorentzimys nouhuwysi), 249. Lesser Small-toothed Rat (Macruromys elegans), 250. Greater Small-toothed Rat (Macruromys major), 251. De Vis’s Woolly Rat (Mallomys aroaensis), 252. Alpine Woolly Rat (Mallomys gunung), 253. Subalpine Woolly Rat (Mallomys istapantap), 254. Rothschild’s Woolly Rat (Mallomys rothschildi), 255. Highland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Mammelomys lanosus), 256. Lowland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Mammelomys rattoides), 258. Long-tailed Talaud Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys talaudium), 259. Dusky Seram Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys aerosus), 260. Manusela Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys fraterculus), 262. Obi Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys obiensis), 263. Pavel’s Seram Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys paveli), 264. Rossel Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys arcium), 265. Bannister’s Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys bannisteri), 266. Fawn-footed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys cervinipes), 267. Yamdena Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys cooperae), 268. Dollman’s Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys dollmani), 269. Snow Mountains Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys frigicola), 270. Riama Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys howi), 271. White-bellied Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys leucogaster), 272. Papua Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys lutullus), 273. Manus Island Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys matambuai), 274. Black-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys rufescens), 275. Bougainville Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys bougainville), 276. Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys burtoni), 277. Cape York Mosaic-tailed Rat (Melomys capensis)" figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6887484" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6887484/files/figure.png" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">274.</figureCitation>
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713447FFF6E97A20907EEB8FD8" box="[2125,2466,3225,3275]" italics="true" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Melomys rufescens</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713447FFF6E46320D472E98FE1" bold="true" box="[1364,1440,3293,3314]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">French:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName id="189A234D3447FFF6E49E20D4717F8FE1" ID-CoL="3ZMXM" baseAuthorityName="Alston" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[1449,1590,3293,3314]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" language="fra" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rufescens">Mélomys roux</vernacularName>
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713447FFF6E77B20D471EF8FE1" bold="true" box="[1612,1702,3293,3314]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">German:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName id="189A234D3447FFF6E78720D47F678FE1" ID-CoL="3ZMXM" baseAuthorityName="Alston" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[1712,2094,3293,3314]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" language="deu" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rufescens">Schwarzschwanz-Mosaikschwanzratte</vernacularName>
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/
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713447FFF6E97420D47FD78FE1" bold="true" box="[2115,2206,3293,3314]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Spanish:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName id="189A234D3447FFF6E99F20D47E9B8FE1" ID-CoL="3ZMXM" baseAuthorityName="Alston" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[2216,2514,3293,3314]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" language="esp" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rufescens">Rata de cola moteada y negra</vernacularName>
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<heading id="CD6EE40F3447FFF6E464210F706E8E08" box="[1363,1831,3334,3355]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713447FFF6E464210F71028E08" bold="true" box="[1363,1611,3334,3355]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Other common names:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName id="189A234D3447FFF6E762210F706E8E08" ID-CoL="3ZMXM" baseAuthorityName="Alston" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[1621,1831,3334,3355]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" language="eng" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rufescens">Black-tailed Melomys</vernacularName>
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713447FFF6E464214E72A68E7A" bold="true" box="[1363,1519,3399,3433]" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">Taxonomy.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03447FFF6E4C8214E70C38E7A" authority="Alston, 1877" authorityName="Alston" authorityYear="1877" box="[1535,1930,3399,3433]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Uromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="97" pageNumber="697" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rufescens">Uromys rufescens Alston, 1877</taxonomicName>
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,
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<materialsCitation id="26F1593E3447FFF6E6AB214E72868E81" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="3864424356" pageId="97" pageNumber="697">“Duke-of-York Island, New Britain, and New Ireland.”</materialsCitation>
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E22B2D2874B2822D" baseAuthorityName="Alston" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[796,1019,289,318]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rufescens">Melomys rufescens</taxonomicName>
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is a complex of forms originally described as subspecies, but there is no general agreement on which should stand or be recognized as species. G. H. H. Tate in 1951 recognized nine subspecies. In a 1996 revision based on morphology, J. I. Menzies recognized seven subspecies with some geographical integrity:
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E59D2E3D725E8142" baseAuthorityName="Alston" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[1194,1303,564,593]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rufescens">rufescens</taxonomicName>
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(New Britain and New Ireland), calidior (southwestern lowlands),
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E57F2E8A73E881B3" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1892" box="[1096,1185,643,672]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Gerbillus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="gracilis">gracilis</taxonomicName>
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(highlands), hagen: (highlands),
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E50A2EA373F381D4" authorityName="Hodgson" authorityYear="1836" box="[1085,1210,682,711]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="niviventer">niviventer</taxonomicName>
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(Fly-Digoel
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plains), stalker: (northern and south-eastern lowlands), and wisselensis (Wissel Lakes). T. E. Flannery in 1995 and many subsequent authors have recognized
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E56D2EFD73FA8005" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1892" box="[1114,1203,756,790]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Gerbillus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="gracilis">gracilis</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E5CC2EFD72208005" authorityName="Rümmler" authorityYear="1935" box="[1275,1385,756,790]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dollmani">dollmani</taxonomicName>
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as representing a distinct species. In a collection from the Bulolo Valley between 1200 m and 1400 m, most specimens had tail length shorter than head-body, but a few had longer tail (greater than 110%); despite the altitude, these are probably of lowland
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E41A2F63764380A0" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" rank="subSpecies" subSpecies="stalker">race stalker</taxonomicName>
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. More study is needed. Seven subspecies currently recognized.
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713444FFF5E1852FBE750B80CA" bold="true" box="[178,578,951,985]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">Subspecies and Distribution.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E18528027490873B" authority="Thomas, 1911" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1911" box="[178,985,1035,1064]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="rufescens" subSpecies="calidior">M.r.calidiorThomas,1911—lowlandsofSWNewGuinea.</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="962653633444FFF5E185288B750387D6" blockId="98.[169,1385,720,2760]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E185288B750387D6" authority="Troughton, 1937" authorityName="Troughton" authorityYear="1937" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="rufescens" subSpecies="hageni">M.r.hageniTroughton,1937—mountainsofNewGuineafromCWestPapua(=IrianJaya])EtotheKratkeRange.</taxonomicName>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="962653633444FFF5E18628C5739787FD" blockId="98.[169,1385,720,2760]" box="[177,1246,1228,1262]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E18628C5739787FD" authority="Tate, 1951" authorityName="Tate" authorityYear="1951" box="[177,1246,1228,1262]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="rufescens" subSpecies="niviventer">M.r.niviventerTate,1951—lowerDigulandFlyriverbasins,SCNewGuinea.</taxonomicName>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="962653633444FFF5E18628FA73428606" blockId="98.[169,1385,720,2760]" box="[177,1035,1267,1301]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E18628FA73428606" authority="Thomas, 1904" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1904" box="[177,1035,1267,1301]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="rufescens" subSpecies="stalkeri">M.r.stalkeriThomas,1904—lowlandsofN&SENewGuinea.</taxonomicName>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="962653633444FFF5E186292D73038698" blockId="98.[169,1385,720,2760]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E186292D7570862E" authority="Menzies, 1996" authorityName="Menzies" authorityYear="1996" box="[177,569,1316,1341]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="rufescens" subSpecies="wisselensis">M. r. wisselensis Menzies, 1996</taxonomicName>
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— known only from the Wissel Lakes area ofW New Guinea. Known also from islands of Waigeo, Salawati, Yapen, Blup Blup, Karkar, and Sideia (off NW, N & SE New Guinea), but subspecies involved not identified.
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83444FFF5E198299B746F8499" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" type="description">
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<paragraph id="962653633444FFF5E198299B746F8499" blockId="98.[169,1385,720,2760]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713444FFF5E198299B76E386A7" bold="true" box="[175,426,1426,1460]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">Descriptive notes.</emphasis>
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Head-body 113-146 mm, tail 108-175 mm, ear 13-17 mm, hindfoot 25-5-29 mm; weight 37-102 g. The Black-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat is a small rat with soft to woolly, often reddish, fur without spines, and with some pure white fur on belly. In highland forms, the while belly fur may be restricted to anterior and posterior parts, with gray-based fur between. Tail is uniformly dark, and the scales each subtend one tiny hair except at tip, which is scaleless and prehensile; tail may beslightly shorter or longer than head-body length, and is longest in highland
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E5122A77739B85B3" box="[1061,1234,1662,1696]" form="gracilis" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" rank="form">form gracilis</taxonomicName>
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. Hindfeet are broad, with prominent plantar pads. Subspecies calidior is larger in most dimensions, mean head-body length 138 mm, tail equal to head-body length; subspecies stalker: generally darker in color, mean head-body length 136 mm, head-body/tail (98%); Subspecies wisselensis larger in most dimensions than calidior but has longertail (though not so long as in highland forms), ventral white fur restricted, mean headbody length 133 mm, head-body/ tail (95%).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83444FFF5E19B2B9F730B8B3A" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" type="biology_ecology">
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<paragraph id="962653633444FFF5E19B2B9F730B8B3A" blockId="98.[169,1385,720,2760]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713444FFF5E19B2B9F765284A0" bold="true" box="[172,283,1942,1971]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">Habitat.</emphasis>
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Characteristic of open country, such as forest in early stage of succession after cultivation. Rarely found in well-developed forest. In absence of introduced
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<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E4392BB076468B11" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">Rattus species</taxonomicName>
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, the Black-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rat may persist in gardens and even roost in thatched roofs ofvillage houses. Ranges from sea level to 3500 m.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83444FFF5E19C242475E98B5C" box="[171,672,2093,2127]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" type="food_feeding">
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<paragraph id="962653633444FFF5E19C242475E98B5C" blockId="98.[169,1385,720,2760]" box="[171,672,2093,2127]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713444FFF5E19C242476F88B5C" bold="true" box="[171,433,2093,2127]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">Food and Feeding.</emphasis>
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No information.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83444FFF5E19C245276628B8E" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" type="breeding">
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<paragraph id="962653633444FFF5E19C245276628B8E" blockId="98.[169,1385,720,2760]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713444FFF5E19C2452767B8B6B" bold="true" box="[171,306,2139,2168]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">Breeding.</emphasis>
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Reproduction may be seasonal. Mean litter size appears to be slightly less than two.
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||
</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83444FFF5E19E24AC762B8A28" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" type="activity">
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<paragraph id="962653633444FFF5E19E24AC762B8A28" blockId="98.[169,1385,720,2760]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713444FFF5E19E24AC76DD8BD4" bold="true" box="[169,404,2213,2247]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">Activity patterns.</emphasis>
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All forms appear to be either scansorial or totally arboreal. Nests are made in tree holes or under crowns of
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||
<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E3FE24D873648BFD" box="[713,1069,2257,2286]" class="Liliopsida" family="Pandanaceae" genus="Pandanus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Pandanales" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Pandanaceae">Pandanus (Pandanaceae)</taxonomicName>
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||
, or woven in tall grass or reeds, especially among
|
||
<taxonomicName id="519928E03444FFF5E30324FD74178A05" box="[564,862,2292,2326]" class="Liliopsida" family="Poaceae" genus="Miscanthus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Poales" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Poaceae">Miscanthus (Poaceae)</taxonomicName>
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||
canes, one to several meters above ground level.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83444FFF5E19D254A74238913" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" type="biology_ecology">
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<paragraph id="962653633444FFF5E19D254A74238913" blockId="98.[169,1385,720,2760]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713444FFF5E19D254A74288A76" bold="true" box="[170,865,2371,2405]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">Movements, Home range and Social organization.</emphasis>
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||
Because this species’ preferred habitat is open vegetation rather than closed forest, and such vegetation is often anthropogenic in origin and transitory, its occurrence is largely dependent on human activity. Black-tailed Mosaic-tailed Rats first appear a few years after farmland is abandoned, and disappear when succession advances to forest.
|
||
</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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||
<subSubSection id="DE8300E83444FFF5E19D260576D4898E" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" type="conservation">
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<paragraph id="962653633444FFF5E19D260576D4898E" blockId="98.[169,1385,720,2760]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713444FFF5E19D26057542893A" bold="true" box="[170,523,2572,2601]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">Status and Conservation.</emphasis>
|
||
Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. In 1968, W. Z. Lidicker and A. C. Ziegler reported that this species was “widespread in the Bulolo Valley and adapting to the steadily increasing encroachment of human activity.” Usually common.
|
||
</paragraph>
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||
</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="DE8300E83444FFF5E19E26A6727789DB" box="[169,1342,2735,2760]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698" type="bibRefCitation_list">
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<paragraph id="962653633444FFF5E19E26A6727789DB" blockId="98.[169,1385,720,2760]" box="[169,1342,2735,2760]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">
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<emphasis id="A4ED8F713444FFF5E19E26A6760B89DB" bold="true" box="[169,322,2735,2760]" pageId="98" pageNumber="698">Bibliography.</emphasis>
|
||
Dwyer (1978, 1984), Flannery (1995b), Lidicker & Ziegler (1968), Menzies (1996), Tate (1951).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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