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Halmaheramys bellwoodi Aplin et al., 2023:731

Bellwood's halmaheramys rat

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Muridae gen. nov. 4, sp. nov. B (Turvey, 2009:57)

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene (Flannery et al., 1998)

 

Distribution

Morotai Island, Indonesia

 

Anatomy & Morphology

 

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Aplin, Kenneth P., Tim F. Flannery, Boeadi, Pierre-Henri Fabre, and Kristofer M. Helgen. (2023). Two new species of Halmaheramys (Murinae: Rattini) from archaeological deposits on Morotai Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia. In Contributions to Mammalogy and Zooarchaeology of Wallacea, ed. K. M. Helgen and R. K. Jones. Records of the Australian Museum 75(5): 719-739. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1785

 

Other references:

Flannery TF, Bellwood P, White JP, Ennis T, Irwin G, Schubert K, and Balasubramaniam S. (1998). Mammals from Holocene archaeological deposits on Gebe and Morotai Islands, northern Moluccas, Indonesia. Australian Mammalogy 20: 391-400.

Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

 

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