Melomys bannisteri Kitchener and Maryanto 1993

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 : 1374

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Melomys bannisteri Kitchener and Maryanto 1993
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Melomys bannisteri Kitchener and Maryanto 1993 View in CoL

Melomys bannisteri Kitchener and Maryanto 1993 View in CoL , Rec. West. Aust. Mus ., 16: 428.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Maluku Tengah, Pulau Kai Besar (Great Key Isl), 2 km W Fakoi, 200 m (see Kitchener and Maryanto, 1993 b, for details) .

Vernacular Names: Great Key Island Melomys.

Distribution: Recorded only from Pulau Kai Besar in Kepulauan Kai (Ewab), between Seram Isl and the Aru Isls.

Discussion: Morphologically similar to M. lutillus . Flannery (1995 b:138) included bannisteri in M. lutillus because "it is clearly part of the M. lutillus group," and also noted that "the confused taxonomic relationships of the M. lutillus group make it difficult to assess the validity of this taxon." Melomys bannisteri is one average larger than either M. lutillus or M. frigicola on New Guinea, and much larger than M. burtoni from the Trans-Fly region ( muscalis ); compare the measurements listed by Kitchener and Maryanto (1993 b:431) with those of M. lutillus and M. frigicola presented by Menzies (1996:397). Kitchener and Maryanto’s taxon should be highlighted as a species until its diagnostic characteristics can be more critically assessed in the context of a revision of these small-bodied Melomys . The Kai Isls are in deep water and not on the continental shelf connecting Australia and New Guinea beneath the Arafura Sea, and any endemic species such as M. bannisteri may be the product of a longer evolutionary history in isolation than is true of faunas on continental shelf islands associated with Australia and New Guinea.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Melomys

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Melomys bannisteri Kitchener and Maryanto 1993

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

Melomys bannisteri

Kitchener and Maryanto 1993: 428
1993
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