Bullimus Mearns 1905
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Bullimus Mearns, 1905. Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 28:450.
TYPE SPECIES: Bullimus bagobus Mearns, 1905.
COMMENTS: Although described as a distinctive genus by Mearns, Bullimus has been treated as a subgenus of Rattus in most taxonomic works (e.g., Ellerman, 1941; Misonne, 1969; Simpson, 1945) until generically reinstated by Musser (1982c) and Musser and Newcomb (1983) and rediagnosed by Musser and Heaney (1992), who also documented taxonomic history and past associations with other murine genera. Belongs to the group of Philippine New Endemics, but its closest phylogenetic relative has yet to be resolved (Musser and Heaney, 1992). Genus needs critical systematic revision, number of actual species is uncertain, those listed below are provisional (Musser and Heaney, 1992; Musser and Newcomb, 1983).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
References
- Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.
- Misonne, X. 1969. African and Indo-Australian Muridae: Evolutionary trends. Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Serie IN- 8, Sciences Zoologiques, 172: 1 - 219.
- Simpson, G. G. 1945. The principles of classification and a classification of mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 85: 1 - 350.
- Musser, G. G. 1982 c. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 110. Crunomys and the small-bodied shrew rats native to the Philippine Islands and Sulawesi (Celebes). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 174: 1 - 95.
- Musser, G. G., and C. Newcomb. 1983. Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 174: 327 - 598.
- Musser, G. G., and L. R. Heaney. 1992. Philippine rodents: Definitions of Tarsomys and Limnomys plus a preliminary assessment of phylogenetic patterns among native Philippine murines (Murinae, Muridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 211: 1 - 138.