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GBIF·8190299speciesAnimalia1 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyMuridae
  6. ›genusPseudohydromys
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IUCN DD · Data deficient

Woolley’s Moss Mouse

Pseudohydromys patriciae Helgen & L.Helgen, 2009

Also calledSouris-musaraigne de Patricia (fra) · pyskomysz mszysta (pol)

First described in: Helgen, Kristofer M., and Lauren E. Helgen / Voss, Robert S., and Michael D. Carleton, eds. (2009). Chapter 8. Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Moss-mice of New Guinea: A Taxonomic Revision of Pseudohydromys (Muridae: Murinae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 331. Systematic Mammalogy: Contributions in Honor of Guy G. Musser.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

description

Condition. Cranium with hole in the left parietal; left dentary missing coronoid process; right dentary complete. Study skin: small dorsal bald patch on the right shoulder.

Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney

description

Current name. Pseudohydromys patriciae Helgen & Helgen, 2009.

Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney

discussion

Comments. Described from the holotype and paratype, which are the only known specimens. Photographs of the holotype as a live animal, along with skull and study skin are given in the original description.

Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney

distribution

Type locality. Porokma, alt. 2800 m, (c. 4 ° 00 ' S 138 ° 43 ' E), near Lake Habbema in the Snow Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia.

Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney

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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 8190299.