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<mods:namePart>Guy G. Musser</mods:namePart>
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TYPE LOCALITY: 
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Christmas Isl (
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DISTRIBUTION: Was endemic to Christmas Isl, 
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south of 
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in the Indian Ocean, but was thought to be extinct by 1908 (
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) and is now considered extinct (
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COMMENTS: 
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first listed the species as the only member of 
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&quot; 
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&quot;
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group in subgenus 
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then placed it and 
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in same group within subgenus 
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of 
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(
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). 
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thought 
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to be nearest 
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but in their comparisons, 
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found no support for this alliance. 
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included 
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in subgenus 
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proposed genus 
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for 
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In the original description, 
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indicated 
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to belong to a group that included 
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and 
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of these, only 
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resembled 
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(
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). Phylogenetic relationships remain unresolved, but Musser (1986) suggested 
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should be compared with a group of species that includes 
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and 
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all not part of subgenus 
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and distantly related to it.
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