Bunomys coelestis (Thomas, 1896)

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 : 581

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scientific name	Bunomys coelestis (Thomas, 1896)
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Bunomys coelestis (Thomas, 1896) View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 18:248.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, SW Sulawesi, Bonthain Peak (Gunung Lampobatang), 6000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Sulawesi; known only from the slopes of Gunung Lampobatang.

COMMENTS: Listed as a species of Bunomys by Tate (1936), as a species of Rattus in the “ coelestis group" by Ellerman (1941, 1949a), but as a species in subgenus Rattus by Laurie and Hill (1954). Musser (1981 c) and Musser and Newcomb (1983) included coeiestis in B. chrysocomus , but Musser (1991) and Musser and Holden (1991) treated it as a species restricted to montane forest formations on south end of SW peninsula.