Uromys emmae Groves & Flannery, 1994

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 380

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7555722

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scientific name

Uromys emmae Groves & Flannery, 1994
status

 

Uromys emmae Groves & Flannery, 1994 View in CoL

Rec.Aust. Mus. 46(2): 159, figs 10–12, table 2. (28 July 1994).

Common name. Emma’s Giant Rat.

Current name. Uromys emmae Groves & Flannery, 1994 ; following Musser & Carleton (2005).

Holotype. M.7200 by original designation. Female adult, skull, study skin, collected by Col. C. B. Phillips, date of collection not recorded, specimen registered on 1 July 1946.

Condition. Damaged but intact cranium: fracture in the posterior end of both zygomatic arches, severe impact on post-orbital area has resulted in transverse fracture across frontals and damage to lateral walls of both orbits including partial disintegration of right orbital wall; all teeth are reinforced with glue; left dentary missing coronoid process; right dentary complete. Study skin missing right ear, tear above right eye has been stitched, left manus missing digit 1; otherwise in good condition.

Type locality. Owi Island (1°16'S 136°13'E), Schouten Island Group , Cenderawasih (formerly Geelvink) Bay, Papua Province, Indonesia GoogleMaps .

Comments. The description was based on one specimen and the species has not been reported since (Wright & Leary, 2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

InfraOrder

Cetacea

Family

Muridae

Genus

Uromys

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