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<mods:namePart>Guy G. Musser</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Michael D. Carleton</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Don E. Wilson</mods:namePart>
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<mods:title>Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)</mods:title>
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<treatmentCitation author="Thomas" authority="(Thomas, 1906)" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1906" box="[262,1461,1734,1772]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" journal="Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="327" pageId="117" pageNumber="618" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="platyops" title="Melomys platyops" volume="17" year="1906">
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<emphasis box="[262,555,1734,1772]" italics="true" pageId="117" pageNumber="618">Melomys platyops</emphasis>
(Thomas, 1906)
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.
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TYPE LOCALITY:
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, Central Prov., head of Aroa River
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.
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DISTRIBUTION: New
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, lowlands and midmountain altitudes both north and south of the Central Cordillera, and on islands; in the north from Nabire (coastal lowlands) in NW Irian Jaya to the east end of
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, then west through S New
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to the Utakwa River in SW Irian Jaya. Also occurs on islands of Yapen (Japen) and Biak in Irian Jaya; New Britain in the Bismarck Arch.; and the isls of Normanby, Fergusson, and Goodenough in the d'Entrecasteaux Arch. Altitudinal range from sea level to
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SYNONYMS:
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,
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,
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, mamberanus.
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COMMENTS: This species was thought to range primarily throughout N New
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(see map in
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) but our reidentification of museum specimens and
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reveals otherwise. The form
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<emphasis box="[1063,1250,2236,2275]" italics="true" pageId="117" pageNumber="618">intermedius</emphasis>
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was originally described as a subspecies of
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<emphasis box="[630,853,2278,2317]" italics="true" pageId="117" pageNumber="618">M. moncktoni</emphasis>
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(see Riimmler, 1938), but type series from Utakwa River (type locality) in SW Irian Jaya have only one hair per scale (all
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have three hairs per scale), as does
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,
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and their cranial, dental, and other external traits are also characteristic of
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,
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not
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.
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Most of the 25 topotypes
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identified as
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<emphasis box="[1066,1393,2446,2484]" italics="true" pageId="117" pageNumber="618">M. moncktoni sturti</emphasis>
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from the lower Fly River are also examples of
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1906" box="[754,945,2487,2527]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="117" pageNumber="618" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="platyops">M. platyops</taxonomicName>
.
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Geographic variation in body size exists among samples of
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,
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and a careful systematic revision of the species is required to assess its significance.
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