Tateomys Musser, 1969

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 667

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Tateomys Musser, 1969 View in CoL . Am. Mus. Novit., 2384:2.

TYPE SPECIES: Tateomys rhinogradoides Musser, 1969 View in CoL .

COMMENTS: Originally, and incorrectly, linked to the " Rattus chrysocomus group " by Musser (1969b), but morphological, spermatozoal, and ecological characteristics clearly united Tateomys and the other Sulawesian shrew rat Melasmothrix in the same monophyletic group to the exclusion of either Rattus , Bunomys , or any other Sulawesian endemic ( Breed and Musser, 1991; Musser, 1982c). Listed as part of the Sulawesi Old Endemics by Musser (1981c).