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<taxonomicName authority="Troughton, 1937 a" authorityName="Troughton" authorityYear="1937" box="[148,722,920,947]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="muscalis" subSpecies="froggatti">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[148,490,920,947]" italics="true" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">Melomys muscalis froggatti</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[151,302,967,988]" italics="true" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">Rec. Aust. Mus.</emphasis>
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20(2): 123. (
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<date box="[426,583,967,989]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" value="1937-08-27">27 August 1937</date>
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,295,1010,1034]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">Common name</emphasis>
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. Grassland
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,276,1055,1080]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">Current name</emphasis>
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.
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<taxonomicName authority="(Ramsay, 1887 a)" baseAuthorityName="Ramsay" baseAuthorityYear="1887" box="[287,638,1055,1080]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="burtoni">
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<emphasis box="[287,461,1055,1079]" italics="true" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">Melomys burtoni</emphasis>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Ramsay, E" box="[470,630,1056,1080]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" pagination="551 - 553" refId="ref143021" refString="Ramsay, E. P. 1887 a. Description of two new species of marsupials (Perameles and Antechinus), and of a new species of Mus (M. Burtoni), from the neighbourhood of Derby, N. W. A. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (series 2) 2 (3): 551 - 553, pl. xvii." type="journal article" year="1887">Ramsay, 1887a</bibRefCitation>
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)
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</taxonomicName>
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, following Musser & Carleton (2005) and Aplin & Dickman
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<emphasis box="[618,668,1085,1109]" italics="true" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">et al.</emphasis>
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(2008). Status uncertain. Considered to be a junior synonym of
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<taxonomicName authority="(Thomas, 1913)" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1913" box="[121,546,1143,1168]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="lutillus" subSpecies="muscalis">
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<emphasis box="[121,383,1143,1167]" italics="true" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">Melomys lutillus muscalis</emphasis>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Thomas, O" box="[391,539,1143,1168]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" pagination="212 - 217" refId="ref145990" refString="Thomas, O. 1913. Some new species of Uromys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 8) 12 (68): 212 - 217. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931308693388" type="journal article" year="1913">Thomas, 1913</bibRefCitation>
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)
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by
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<bibRefCitation author="Menzies, J" box="[580,744,1143,1167]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" pagination="367 - 426" refId="ref138923" refString="Menzies, J. I. 1996. A systematic revision of Melomys (Rodentia: Muridae) of New Guinea. Australian Journal of Zoology 44 (4): 367 - 426. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / ZO 9960367" type="journal article" year="1996">Menzies (1996)</bibRefCitation>
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. Aplin & Dickman
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<emphasis box="[326,382,1173,1197]" italics="true" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">et al.</emphasis>
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(2008) regard
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Ramsay" baseAuthorityYear="1887" box="[547,662,1173,1197]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Melomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="burtoni">
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<emphasis box="[547,662,1173,1197]" italics="true" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">M. burtoni</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">M. lutillus</emphasis>
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(
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)
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to be an unresolved species complex of Northern
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and
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.
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<materialsCitation collectingDate="1913-12-16" collectingDateMax="1913-12-16" collectingDateMin="1885-09" collectionCode="AM" collectorName="W. W. Froggatt" country="New Guinea" county="Old Collection" location="Royal Geographical Society Expedition" municipality="New" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" specimenCode="M.2374" specimenCount="1" typeStatus="holotype">
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.
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by original designation.Adult male, skull (
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), study skin, registered
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<date box="[446,646,1306,1330]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" value="1913-12-16">
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<collectingDate box="[446,646,1306,1330]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" value="1913-12-16">16 December 1913</collectingDate>
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. The only data in the original register entry is “
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03DD87C8FFEC736018A6FC73FA5590E4:8EAB6005FFEC73601A23FADCFE979251" country="New Guinea" county="Old Collection" municipality="New" name="Royal Geographical Society Expedition" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">Royal Geographical Society Expedition</location>
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to
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”, “Old Collection”, later marked “Holotype” by Troughton. Collected in 1885 by
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<collectorName pageId="85" pageNumber="362">W.W. Froggatt</collectorName>
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(Troughton’s account). The
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<collectionCode box="[501,544,1424,1448]" country="Australia" name="Australian Museum" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" type="Museum">AM</collectionCode>
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type specimen card index gives the collection date as
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<date box="[472,745,1453,1477]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" value="1885-09" valueMax="1885-10-31" valueMin="1885-09-00">September–October 1885</date>
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,237,1498,1522]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">Condition</emphasis>
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. Cranium missing both zygomatic arches, both auditory capsules fractured and damaged, small section of posterior palate missing; both dentaries missing coronoid processes. Study skin: missing both ear tips and fractured tail tip.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,270,1661,1685]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">Type locality</emphasis>
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. “The banks of the Strickland River, about
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above the junction with the Fly River”, Western Province,
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Troughton, E" box="[457,710,1719,1744]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" pagination="117 - 127" refId="ref147573" refString="Troughton, E. L. G. 1937 a. Descriptions of some New Guinea mammals. Records of the Australian Museum 20 (2): 117 - 127. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.20.1937.254" type="journal article" year="1937">Troughton, 1937a: 124</bibRefCitation>
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). It seems conceivable that Troughton obtained locality data of the
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from his contemporary Froggatt.
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<bibRefCitation author="Dwyer, P" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" pagination="7 - 24" refId="ref127819" refString="Dwyer, P. D., M. Minnegal, and C. Warrillow. 2015. The Forgotten Expedition - 1885: The Strickland River, New Guinea. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 101 (1): 7 - 24." type="journal article" year="2015">
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Dwyer
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<emphasis box="[694,749,1778,1802]" italics="true" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">et al.</emphasis>
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(2015)
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concluded that “Fossil camp” was the furthest upstream location on the Strickland River reached by the Geographical Society’s Expedition, located between the junctions of the Murray and Carrington Rivers at approximately
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, and they state that Froggatt had estimated this site to be about
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<quantity box="[285,387,1954,1978]" metricMagnitude="5" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.609344" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" unit="mi" value="100.0">100 miles</quantity>
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(along the river) from the junction with the Fly River. The Expedition stayed one night at Fossil Camp (
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<date box="[871,1077,1792,1816]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" value="1885-09-27">27 September 1885</date>
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) and returned to the Fly junction on 29 September. It is likely that the
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<typeStatus box="[1181,1272,1822,1846]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">holotype</typeStatus>
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was collected in late September, and the type locality was Fossil Camp or an adjoining site downstream.
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<paragraph blockId="85.[793,1422,1687,1736]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">
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Figure 39. AM M.2374, holotype skull of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">Melomys muscalis froggatti</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Troughton, E" box="[882,1056,1714,1736]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362" pagination="117 - 127" refId="ref147573" refString="Troughton, E. L. G. 1937 a. Descriptions of some New Guinea mammals. Records of the Australian Museum 20 (2): 117 - 127. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.20.1937.254" type="journal article" year="1937">Troughton, 1937a</bibRefCitation>
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. (Photography by Stuart Humphreys).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[794,921,1925,1949]" pageId="85" pageNumber="362">Comments</emphasis>
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. Troughton erroneously gives the
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registration as M.2377, presumably a typographical error. His description appears to be based on a single specimen.
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