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Mus vulcani
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Description
Mus vulcani (Robinson and Kloss, 1919). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 4:378.
TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, W Java, Gunung Gede, Gandang Badak, 7900 ft.
DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to moss forests in mountains of W Java.
COMMENTS: Subgenus Coelomys. Originally described as a subspecies of Mycteromys crociduroides (see Chasen, 1940), but is a separate species. Both M. vulcani and M. crociduroides are the only native Mus known from islands on the Sunda Shelf (Musser, 1986; Musser and Newcomb, 1983).
Notes
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 629, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Mus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Robinson and Kloss
- Species
- vulcani
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mus vulcani (and, 1919) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Chasen, F. N. 1940. A handlist of Malaysian mammals: A systematic list of the mammals of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, including the adjacent small islands. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 15: 1 - 209.
- 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.