Melomys paveli Helgen 2003

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1379

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11334989

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scientific name

Melomys paveli Helgen 2003
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Melomys paveli Helgen 2003 View in CoL

Melomys paveli Helgen 2003 View in CoL , J. Zool. Lond., 261: 168.

Type Locality: Indonesia, coast of S Pulau Seram, Piliana, 400 m (see Helgen, 2003 b, for coordinates and additional information) .

Vernacular Names: Pavel's Seram Melomys.

Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Discussion: Represented only by the holotype. Member of the M. rufescens group as defined by Menzies (1996) and originally described as a subspecies of M. rufescens that in body size and pelage coloration is most similar to M. r. niviventer occurring in forest and savannas of the lower Fly and Digul Rivers in S New Guinea (see Menzies, 1996, and Tate, 1951 for characteristics of niviventer ). A better hypothesis recognizes paveli as a species related to M. rufescens , M. bougainville , and M. matambuai (see those accounts), for Helgen (2003 b:169) noted that paveli "differs in several ways from other mosaic-tailed rats placed in M. rufescens and can probably be considered as distinctive as M. matambuai or M. bougainville , both of which are currently separated from M. rufescens as distinct species." Analyses of additional specimens of paveli using morphological traits and gene sequences may resolve the question of whether the resemblance between it and M. r. niviventer reflects close genetic alliance as an island population of M. rufescens or traits independently acquired during evolution in insular isolation.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Melomys

Loc

Melomys paveli Helgen 2003

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Melomys paveli

Helgen 2003: 168
2003
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