Meyer's Lenomys
Lenomys meyeri (Jentink, 1879)
Also calledKleezahn-Riesenratte (deu) · Rat de Meyer (fra) · sulawesinhammasrotta (fin) · wielkofutrzak sulaweski (pol) · Сулавесская крыса (rus) · Тройчатозубая крыса (rus) · セレベスオオネズミ (jpn)
First described in: Notes Leyden Mus. vol.1 p.12
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Represented by a small extant series from the N peninsula and C core, and by both modern specimens and subfossils from the SW peninsula of Sulawesi (Musser, 1970 d; 1984). A second undescribed species is known from a subfossil fragment collected in the SW arm of Sulawesi (Musser and Holden, 1991; Musser, ms). Flannery (1995 b) identified a large-bodied rat, with shaggy pelage and long bicolored tail, from Pulau Sangir (off coast of NE peninsular tip of Sulawesi) as Lenomys meyeri, but the specimen represents an undescribed species related to mainland Rattus xanthurus (Musser, ms); Lenomys has yet to be collected on any island off the coast of Sulawesi.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENTS: Represented by a small extant series from the N peninsula and central core, and by both modern specimens and subfossils from the SW peninsula of Sulawesi (Musser, 19704; 1984). A second species (yet to be named and described) is known only from subfossil fragment collected in SW arm of Sulawesi (Musser and Holden, 1991).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENT: Includes longicaudus and limpo; see Musser, 1970, Am. Mus. Novit., 2440: 18.
Order Rodentia (Part 5)
Where it has been recorded
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