Subalpine Mallomys
Mallomys istapantap Flannery, Aplin & Groves, 1989
Also calledBergwaldriesenbaumratte (deu) · Hochland-Riesenbaumratte (deu) · Mallomys subalpin (fra) · Wełnistek górski (pol) · irianinvillarotta (fin) · Низинная мохнатая крыса (rus) · ヤマオニネズミ (jpn)
First described in: Rec. Aust. Mus. vol.41 p.96
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Recorded from the Snow Mtns (Pegunungan Maoke), where it has been taken on the N slopes at the Bele River and on the S slopes near Tembagapura, and the Central Cordillera in Papua New Guinea from Mt Giluwe in the west to Mt Victoria in the east; 2200 - 3850 m (Flannery, 1995 a: 289).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: New Guinea; high altitudes along Central Cordillera from Mt Victoria in Owen Stanley Range of E Papua New Guinea to Bele River region in Snow Mtns of Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
materials_examined
Type Locality: Papua New Guinea, Mt Hagen Dist., Korelum (Flannery et al., 1989, provided additional information).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENTS: Published records are only from the Central Cordillera in Papua New Guinea (see map in Flannery et al., 1989: 97), but one specimen (in the American Museum of Natural History, 151342) comes from 18 km N of Lake Habbema in Irian Jaya.
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2439099.