Nesoromys Thomas 1922

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1416

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11335155

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scientific name

Nesoromys Thomas 1922
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Nesoromys Thomas 1922 View in CoL

Nesoromys Thomas 1922 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 9: 263.

Type Species: Stenomys ceramicus Thomas 1920

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Nesoromys ceramicus (Thomas 1920)

Discussion: Rattus Division. Rümmler (1938) united Nesoromys with Stenomys explaining only that the differences between it and other species in Stenomys was insufficient to recognize a separate genus for ceramicus ; he considered ceramicus to represent Stenomys , a group primarily New Guinean in distribution, on Seram. The species, however, exhibits a combination of primitive and highly derived traits not seen in other species of Stenomys or Rattus ( Aplin et al., 2003 b; Misonne, 1969). While ceramicus does bear a superficial resemblance to New Guinea R. niobe (which Rümmler placed in Stenomys ) in body size, pelage coloration and texture, and general cranial conformation, it differs considerably from any other endemics in the Indomaylan, Moluccan, and Australia-New Guinea regions by its combination of very specialized bony palate (extremely broad and projecting way beyond posterior margins of molar rows), short incisive foramina that end well anterior to molar rows, and shallow pterygoid fossae, prompting Ellerman (1941:258) to admonish that "... until intermediate forms are discovered between this genus and Rattus in characters of the palate, it must stand as a very distinct genus." We agree and retain the genus (as did Ellerman [1949 a], Laurie and Hill [1954], Misonne [1969], and Simpson [1945]) with its morphologically distinctive species until a relationship is demonstrated otherwise by phylogenetic analyses employing morphology and DNA sequences from a broad range of Indo-Australian murines.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Loc

Nesoromys Thomas 1922

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Nesoromys

Thomas 1922: 263
1922
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