Melomys frigicola

Tate, 1951

Snow Mountains Grassland Mosaic-tailed Rat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Supramyomorpha
Infraorder : Myomorphi
Superfamily : Muroidea
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Murinae
Tribe : Hydromyini
Genus : Melomys

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Tate, G.H.H. 1951-10-30. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 65. The rodents of Australia and New Guinea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 97:183-430.

Authority publication link

https://hdl.handle.net/2246/1060

Original name as described

Melomys lutillus frigicola

Other common names

Snow Mountains Grassland Melomys

Type material

AMNH M-151201

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-151201

Type locality

"Bele River, 18 kilometers north of Lake Habbema, near Mt. Wilhelmina, Netherlands New Guinea [= Papua, Indonesia], 2200 meters."

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Indonesia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003215

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Melomys lutillus frigicola

Tate, 1951

Family

Muridae

Root name

frigicola

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

AMNH M-151201

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-151201

Authority page

303

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Tate (1951:303) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/4116)
  2. Laurie & Hill (1954:125, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49635719) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/31868)

Melomys frigicola

Menzies, 1996

Family

Muridae

Root name

frigicola

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

398

Authority publication

Australian Journal of Zoology

Name usages

  1. Menzies (1996:398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/4006)
  2. Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)
  3. Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:696) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #136719) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #136719) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003215) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  7. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136719/22420228) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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