Mus villosissimus Waite, 1898a

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 : 367

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5238031

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scientific name

Mus villosissimus Waite, 1898a
status

 

Mus villosissimus Waite, 1898a nomen novum

Proc. R. Soc. Vic. n.s. 10: 125. (July 1898).

Common name. Long-haired Rat.

Current name. Rattus villosissimus ( Waite, 1898a) , following Jackson & Groves (2015).

Holotype. PA.62, the holotype of Mus longipilis Gould, 1854 , see previous account of that taxon.

Comments. Waite proposed villosissimus as a new replacement name for Mus longipilis Gould, 1854 , see account for Mus longipilis . Waite (1898a) provided an extended description of Mus longipilis , using a male and female obtained after the Horn Expedition by Spencer’s collectors. Waite provided skull and external measurements for both specimens (which have no type status), which he designated as A (male) and B (female). One of these specimens could be M.1305, an unsexed skin mount that appears to have had the skull removed (but skull not subsequently found); entered in the M Register as “Central Australia ”, presented by Baldwin Spencer, and registered in July 1898, originally as Mus villosissimus . Although external measurements of M.1305 appear to be closest to Waite’s female, specimen B, Taylor & Horner (1973) concluded that it was his specimen A, based on skull measurements of the other specimen which they believed to be SAM M.2410.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Mus

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