Rattus timorensis Kitchener, Aplin, and Boeadi, 1991

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 : 661

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scientific name	Rattus timorensis Kitchener, Aplin, and Boeadi, 1991
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Rattus timorensis Kitchener, Aplin, and Boeadi, 1991 View in CoL . Rec. West. Aust. Mus., 15:446.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara, Timor, Gunung Mutis, 1900 m, 7 km E Desa Nenas .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

COMMENTS: Represented only by the holotype. Some of the large series of subfossil fragments collected in E Timor by Glover (1986) may be this species. Phylogenetic affinities unknown, and possibly not even a member of Rattus ( Kitchener et al., 1991 b) .