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<taxonomicName id="89D79E3B305FBF3DC57BDCA523207DF0" ID-CoL="3ZMWP" authority="(Ramsay 1887)" baseAuthorityName="Ramsay" baseAuthorityYear="1887" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1375" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="burtoni">
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<emphasis id="0F6F0A5341D7E88468F1AC60D5DDC935" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">Melomys burtoni</emphasis>
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<treatmentCitation id="9057E2BE940263C4B5B829068BAB37A7" author="Ramsay" authority="(Ramsay 1887)" baseAuthorityName="Ramsay" baseAuthorityYear="1887" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" journal="Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., ser. 2" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="531" pageNumber="1375" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="burtoni" title="[Melomys] burtoni" volume="2" year="1887">
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<emphasis id="35DFF3A54D92C2DEF6AA493E704DB3C1" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">[Melomys] burtoni</emphasis>
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,
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<bibCitation id="0EBE298F52B6F4E416458A1AE15CCFBE" author="Ramsay" journal="Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., ser. 2" pageNumber="1375" pagination="531" title="[Melomys] burtoni" volume="2" year="1887">Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., ser. 2, 2: 531</bibCitation>
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</treatmentCitation>
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.
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<paragraph id="349A5041B881E4263CA655929296F779" pageNumber="1375">
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<emphasis id="44730DBDD6E6CB7F128D19D7BC64F081" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1375">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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<materialsCitation id="DF17267A2F2A755215B7E4605BA5B19D" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="4867324477" country="Australia" pageNumber="1375" stateProvince="Western Australia">
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<collectingCountry id="68B3AF123F822D8DE75DBD0121F2BB5F" name="Australia">Australia</collectingCountry>
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,
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<collectingRegion id="D8769A05AD11C71E97464F52438EDE3B" country="Australia" name="Western Australia">Western Australia</collectingRegion>
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, near Derby;
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<bibRefCitation id="D1AEDF2F028729DE159F8F4D216A0C8D" author="Mahoney, J. A. & B. J. Richardson" refId="ref222168" refString="Mahoney, J. A., and B. J. Richardson. 1988. Muridae. Pp. 154 - 192, in Zoological catalogue of Australia. Mammalia (J. L. Bannister, et. al.). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 5: 1 - 274." year="1988">Mahoney and Richardson (1988:161)</bibRefCitation>
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provided details.
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<emphasis id="524741018D6AB17DB8E5B14253498D17" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1375">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
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<vernacularName id="5D1A56B65A04449F0156534769BE6046" language="eng" pageNumber="1375">Grassland Melomys</vernacularName>
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.
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<subSubSection id="7D2F172A5F1DE5A59301928D3921E18F" pageNumber="1375" type="synonym_list">
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<paragraph id="030F1A33C9CCD0E7A5F95FDEFB01DE8A" pageNumber="1375">
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<emphasis id="A946C96927D108767A2030667D4439F8" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1375">Synonyms:</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4BB0231D41D45435413C5E57EEF660B9" authority="Kellogg 1945" authorityName="Kellogg" authorityYear="1945" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1375" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="albiventer">
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<emphasis id="9892B018C678C5B2AE34FC13889F2209" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">Melomys albiventer</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="27344581685237BB70A5BA61951BE506" author="Kellogg, R." refId="ref182353" refString="Kellogg, R. 1945. Two rats from Morotai Island. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 58: 65 - 68." year="1945">Kellogg 1945</bibRefCitation>
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</taxonomicName>
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;
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<taxonomicName id="E0FFB3A70F853894D8BB460AE1FAF5F1" authority="Thomas 1924" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1924" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1375" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="australius">
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<emphasis id="1C446AE109B5366D687A7E3282E7DA09" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">Melomys australius</emphasis>
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Thomas 1924
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</taxonomicName>
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;
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<taxonomicName id="51FF291982C5C1B4844EAA45102B1761" authority="Finlayson 1943" authorityName="Finlayson" authorityYear="1943" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1375" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="callopes">
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<emphasis id="8F3CE4881DD79F0AEFB7045007796894" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">Melomys callopes</emphasis>
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Finlayson 1943
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</taxonomicName>
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;
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<taxonomicName id="391A53F9605F1BD6489720DCAEE4DF1C" authority="Troughton 1937" authorityName="Troughton" authorityYear="1937" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1375" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="froggatti">
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<emphasis id="3ACE2DB4B8BEDF4776F920AF125AEBB7" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">Melomys froggatti</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="AA1C5673CF1FAE41E5E1A30D144A2144" author="Troughton, E. Le G." refId="ref359955" refString="Troughton, E. Le G. 1937. Descriptions of some New Guinea mammals. Records of the Australian Museum, 20: 117 - 127." year="1937">Troughton 1937</bibRefCitation>
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</taxonomicName>
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;
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<taxonomicName id="B1968D179B77ED7E767288F8C2E4F0F3" authority="Troughton and Le Souef 1929" authorityName="Troughton and Le Souef" authorityYear="1929" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1375" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="insulae">
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<emphasis id="BED4D3AA44A2415F6FDCF1497666A65C" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">Melomys insulae</emphasis>
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Troughton and Le Souef 1929
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</taxonomicName>
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;
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<taxonomicName id="EEE92F224B53CF5495FE67818042BCA6" authority="(Lönnberg 1916)" baseAuthorityName="Lönnberg" baseAuthorityYear="1916" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1375" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="littoralis">
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<emphasis id="D5FA97F68ABF9541395763026D958712" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">Melomys littoralis</emphasis>
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(Lönnberg 1916)
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</taxonomicName>
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;
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<taxonomicName id="5C81E34940A008745079A3F3A1A2FB11" authority="(Thomas 1913)" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1375" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="melicus">
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<emphasis id="0F55AE109EE0C4D85404E60B1470251D" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">Melomys melicus</emphasis>
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(Thomas 1913)
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</taxonomicName>
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;
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<taxonomicName id="97D7435DFD4330A0B5EAA49249E9657A" authority="Troughton 1935" authorityName="Troughton" authorityYear="1935" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1375" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mixtus">
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<emphasis id="563CE3EE0CD84E6C84F8487DE1A570E6" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">Melomys mixtus</emphasis>
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Troughton 1935
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</taxonomicName>
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;
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<taxonomicName id="3EDA770F54324F1D27CCE05969F2AF52" authority="(Thomas 1913)" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1375" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="murinus">
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<emphasis id="61625A9188D652109013AC2D6AB994BB" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">Melomys murinus</emphasis>
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(Thomas 1913)
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</taxonomicName>
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;
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<taxonomicName id="FD0DBD4C80DC6A2A6619BC1E920EBC0E" authority="(Thomas 1913)" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1375" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="muscalis">
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<emphasis id="6239B37EA39D1F2972DDCCA606EEC2DA" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">Melomys muscalis</emphasis>
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(Thomas 1913)
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</taxonomicName>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8D94D83543AA6F0948E10A64213AEDE1" pageNumber="1375">
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<emphasis id="5B04CE64F656F408BC5B3A8AD177E379" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1375">Distribution:</emphasis>
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<collectingCountry id="0E0A8D372B578A69D8C1BBB3E90212BC" name="Australia">Australia</collectingCountry>
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; along the coast "from just south of the New South Wales-Queensland border, north to the tip of Cape York, and in coastal areas of the
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<collectingRegion id="5C3FAE10E796B214DD248A400DB17EAC" country="Australia" name="Northern Territory">Northern Territory</collectingRegion>
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and north-eastern
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<collectingRegion id="605EF5A70F9AA45A303D334D6FB7D15F" country="Australia" name="Western Australia">Western Australia</collectingRegion>
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" (
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<bibRefCitation id="4EA2127168ADC095C5A74837498C4E0C" author="Watts, C. H. S. & H. J. Aslin" refId="ref384328" refString="Watts, C. H. S., and H. J. Aslin. 1981. The rodents of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 321 pp." year="1981">Watts and Aslin, 1981:84</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<bibRefCitation id="3C5F89F3171F281FD839C1DD144F6C70" author="Kerle, J. A." refId="ref183209" refString="Kerle, J. A. 1995 c. Grassland melomys, Melomys burtoni. Pp. 632 - 634, in Mammals of Australia (R. Strahan, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 756 pp." year="1995">
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Kerle, 1995
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<emphasis id="5693C091E432B99D4292F03E4A6FA882" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">c</emphasis>
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:633
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</bibRefCitation>
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); also found on many offshore islands. SC New
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<collectingCountry id="4A6681BA4B60A498F919572E407BE90B" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
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(recorded only from the Trans-Fly region).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="C82F77705538BBD0E85D0609C8610BB7" pageNumber="1375" type="conservation">
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<paragraph id="74CEDD22DB09512E57AD28045C84A996" pageNumber="1375">
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<emphasis id="4327B59BCBFAF87ADF70A1CF87292E89" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1375">Conservation:</emphasis>
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<collectionCode id="5A429E736BFCBF72E3C7B7B4C7B2230E">IUCN</collectionCode>
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– Lower Risk (lc).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="0EC30A80267132339E2413503FFFB17E" pageNumber="1375" type="discussion">
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<paragraph id="D73678E3DBBB935CC8187737FBB671F2" pageNumber="1375">
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<emphasis id="A190328383C3B4446E8C7D902486CDDA" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1375">Discussion:</emphasis>
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Results of chromosomal and electrophoretic studies reported by
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<bibRefCitation id="49F03D547C2EC73BA68A3E879F66390D" author="Baverstock, P. R. & C. H. S. Watts & J. T. Hogarth" refId="ref24478" refString="Baverstock, P. R., C. H. S. Watts, and J. T. Hogarth. 1977 c. Chromosome evolution in Australian rodents. I. The Pseudomyinae, the Hydromyinae and the Uromys / Melomys group. Chromosoma, 61: 95 - 125." year="1977">
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Baverstock et al. (1977
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<bibRefCitation id="E7FD76D043525F88B2FE656ABE99BCCE" author="Tate, C. M. & J. F. Pagels & C. O. Handley, Jr." refId="ref346659" refString="Tate, C. M., J. F. Pagels, and C. O. Handley, Jr. 1980. Distribution and systematic relationship of two kinds of short-tailed shrews (Soricidae: Blarina) in south-central Virginia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 93: 50 - 60." year="1980">
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<emphasis id="52644F7985337B56E1157BF9E957B4FD" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">c</emphasis>
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, 1980
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</bibRefCitation>
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</bibRefCitation>
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, 1981, 1983
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<emphasis id="7EE50081D009890FBF0F1C3A3D933895" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">b</emphasis>
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). Anatomy of male reproductive tract and spermatozoal morphology presented by
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<bibRefCitation id="B2CC83E73F8012ECBB23CB562BF19794" author="Breed, W. G. & V. Sarafis" refId="ref41612" refString="Breed, W. G., and V. Sarafis. 1978. On the phylogenetic significance of spermatozoal morphology and male reproductive tract anatomy in Australian rodents. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 103: 127 - 135." year="1978">Breed and Sarafis (1978)</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<bibRefCitation id="3D65565491B0E597B3DC52B7F97F71CE" author="Morrissey, B. L. & W. G. Breed" refId="ref247856" refString="Morrissey, B. L., and W. G. Breed. 1982. Variation in external morphology of the glans penis of Australian native rodents. Australian Journal of Zoology, 30: 495 - 502." year="1982">Morrissey and Breed (1982)</bibRefCitation>
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, and
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<bibRefCitation id="5E50839EDB078FCD38C7884A29C91870" author="Breed, W. G." refId="ref40861" refString="Breed, W. G. 1984. Sperm head structure in the Hydromyinae (Rodentia: Muridae): A further evolutionary development of the subacrosomal space in mammals. Gamete Research, 10: 31 - 44." year="1984">Breed (1984</bibRefCitation>
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, 1986).
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<bibRefCitation id="07997655448709CE692D8CE46B21FE4A" author="Tate, G. H. H." refId="ref347722" refString="Tate, G. H. H. 1951. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 65. The rodents of Australia and New Guinea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 97: 183 - 430." year="1951">Tate (1951)</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<bibRefCitation id="CD5DFA9DBD551B848C543B35E1500ED9" author="Mahoney, J. A. & B. J. Richardson" refId="ref222168" refString="Mahoney, J. A., and B. J. Richardson. 1988. Muridae. Pp. 154 - 192, in Zoological catalogue of Australia. Mammalia (J. L. Bannister, et. al.). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 5: 1 - 274." year="1988">Mahoney and Richardson (1988)</bibRefCitation>
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, and Musser and Carleton treated populations from Australian and New
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<collectingCountry id="5EC6BC33FC2473D374B9A5EEA9204BD6" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
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region as a single species, and
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<bibRefCitation id="FB496ECC4568619EF098ABE85B68041C" author="Musser, G. G. & M. D. Carleton" refId="ref252333" refString="Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp." year="1993">Musser and Carleton (1993)</bibRefCitation>
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noted that the complex needs revision using data from morphological, chromosomal, and molecular sets to assess significance of the variation apparent both among samples from New
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<collectingCountry id="17E4BE5566411E115D1A1E17EBE24D64" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
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and between those from New
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<collectingCountry id="6287223A533712C66098738F4FD8CA68" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
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and
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<collectingCountry id="2B6703EEC7F8637D0FB59734DAB008B5" name="Australia">Australia</collectingCountry>
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. In the absence of such a revisionary study, Flannery (1995
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<emphasis id="B3F84D4B629537B612F4815561E31757" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">a</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="FA474D72F36FB66E5DE0D242544D4F40" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">b</emphasis>
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) treated the New
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<collectingCountry id="EBEC2EF217DC5C2D4AF09F71608D7BE5" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
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samples as a separate species,
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<taxonomicName id="8BABF6B18843C375879C6CA52167D795" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lutillus">
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<emphasis id="6EAF360E44DB44B84DA7F9021489CFB2" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">M. lutillus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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. Recently,
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<bibRefCitation id="52FAD07FAF48591CFD15D5C3BDB755B6" author="Menzies, J. I." refId="ref237943" refString="Menzies, J. I. 1996. A systematic revision of Melomys (Rodentia: Muridae) of New Guinea. Australian Journal of Zoology, 44: 367 - 426." year="1996">Menzies (1996)</bibRefCitation>
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has provided a revision of the New
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<collectingCountry id="D3E4A5E1AC3CB8C19364F1B6BBD2D35D" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
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segment, as
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<taxonomicName id="D5E5C6ABCEC5B08ED4D4EA88368BEEEC" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lutillus">
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<emphasis id="9E8C290ED8A3788CF435EBB4BF805FCA" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">M. lutillus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, recognizing
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<emphasis id="F7C56EB1F570C690BB2404C9233BAE05" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">
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M. l.
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<taxonomicName id="C320385DE195F193EEF65911899E4436" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lutillus">lutillus</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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as occurring in E Papua,
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<emphasis id="04A1A4E23110391EFAC5C69492C44785" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">
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M. l.
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<taxonomicName id="E70FC52AD8A019B71B614C6844F6F797" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="muscalis">muscalis</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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as confined to the Trans-Fly savannas, and samples from the Snow Mtns of Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya) as a separate species,
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<taxonomicName id="71529B8946563886BC33A8A92C9EDE1B" authorityName="Tate" authorityYear="1951" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="frigicola">
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<emphasis id="5BB87B49FD4560151001E5D16FC0E69E" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">M. frigicola</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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.
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<bibRefCitation id="DFA7710C7A78CF42154799587980C4EC" author="Menzies, J. I." refId="ref237943" refString="Menzies, J. I. 1996. A systematic revision of Melomys (Rodentia: Muridae) of New Guinea. Australian Journal of Zoology, 44: 367 - 426." year="1996">Menzies (1996:380)</bibRefCitation>
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realized the close relationship between Australian and New
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F8F8D1B4B2EA5C76223527041F2BC3BA" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
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||
populations, writing "There is a possibility that New Guinean
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<taxonomicName id="4B9006830C1A3A41D8F08A77280FC5F5" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lutillus">
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<emphasis id="2494C650070408B308CB9DDD15BA217D" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">lutillus</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
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, especially the Trans-Fly population,
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<taxonomicName id="7608126A0D1E29B4628CB7F76DFA238E" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="muscalis">
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<emphasis id="D1D40E71924139F2831920AB916B0303" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">muscalis</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
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||
, could be conspecific with the tropical Australian
|
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<taxonomicName id="9655CB6DCC8F9C94184B68249431367A" baseAuthorityName="Ramsay" baseAuthorityYear="1887" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="burtoni">
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<emphasis id="39DE448C5EB3471526886BCBD47A812D" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">burtoni</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
." Here we incorporate the Trans-Fly segment (
|
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<taxonomicName id="0A714183934A852969452F74F28B77EE" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="muscalis">
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<emphasis id="877FEF1D0C2087763532EB02E47615AD" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">muscalis</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
) into Australian
|
||
<taxonomicName id="E5500C2A0CAA0AE62E3DD2B21775EC49" baseAuthorityName="Ramsay" baseAuthorityYear="1887" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="burtoni">
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||
<emphasis id="93F6F788672A67BB0C4F1843DA19F67D" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">M. burtoni</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, and recognize
|
||
<taxonomicName id="879080E93939B6F8BDFF0140CDC02B2B" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lutillus">
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||
<emphasis id="1C5039E081AB15F311ACB80E63FE8D97" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">M. lutillus</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="B07F93A03721F7FE1236E521914F7032" authorityName="Tate" authorityYear="1951" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="frigicola">
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||
<emphasis id="EC221CD5FC14FF5877146882E660D81C" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">M. frigicola</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
as occurring elsewhere on New
|
||
<collectingCountry id="7CEE293847C7C4A276E79CB5BA51671D" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
|
||
(see those accounts). This seems a reasonable hypothesis to test in the context of a needed revision incorporating samples from both
|
||
<collectingCountry id="EC1CCCB218432DF72124C223B84960D8" name="Australia">Australia</collectingCountry>
|
||
and New
|
||
<collectingCountry id="2D8564D7F17F8879E691FAE5F4202A5C" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
|
||
. If
|
||
<taxonomicName id="8F7345D28F73C61CC83115903559FC36" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="muscalis">
|
||
<emphasis id="87E3C2AC6F5BB3B0712DF8B03FA44699" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">muscalis</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
truly represents the Austral
|
||
<taxonomicName id="D2B53203837C8DA1C8DDE753B4AC7D7D" baseAuthorityName="Ramsay" baseAuthorityYear="1887" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="burtoni">
|
||
<emphasis id="1994D77A79758779FB7864F0AF9A9129" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">M. burtoni</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, this would be another example of an Australian element also occurring only in the Trans-Fly region of S New
|
||
<collectingCountry id="3E888F792452E38D09B55CBE9F6D1089" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="C38CCF7D3A6F193DAA602F07A294A25D" author="Norris, C. A. & G. G. Musser" refId="ref262232" refString="Norris, C. A., and G. G. Musser. 2001. Systematic revision within the Phalanger orientalis complex (Diprotodontia, Phalangeridae): A third species of lowland gray cuscus from New Guinea and Australia. American Museum Novitates, 3356: 1 - 20." year="2001">Norris and Musser, 2001</bibRefCitation>
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). Australian segment reviewed by
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="2400F181D838E3DFDA3E3D687106EB98" author="Watts, C. H. S. & H. J. Aslin" refId="ref384328" refString="Watts, C. H. S., and H. J. Aslin. 1981. The rodents of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 321 pp." year="1981">Watts and Aslin (1981)</bibRefCitation>
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and
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="613D97FFDF3241344835D55AC36A47DA" author="Kerle, J. A." refId="ref183209" refString="Kerle, J. A. 1995 c. Grassland melomys, Melomys burtoni. Pp. 632 - 634, in Mammals of Australia (R. Strahan, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 756 pp." year="1995">
|
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Kerle (1995
|
||
<emphasis id="62719BFA885F7B75075764485DD7B3A5" italics="true" pageNumber="1375">c</emphasis>
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||
)
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
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