Tateomys macrocercus

Musser, 1982

Long-tailed Sulawesian Shrew Rat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Musser, G.G. 1982. 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.

Authority publication link

https://hdl.handle.net/2246/1021

Original name as described

Tateomys macrocercus

Other common names

Long-tailed Shrew Rat

Type material

MZB 224317

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"altitude of 7500 feet [= 2286 m] in moss forest on the southwestern slope near the summit of Gunung Nokilalaki (lat. 1°13' S, long. 120°08' E), a high peak northeast of Danau Lindu, Province Sulawesi Tengah, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia."

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Indonesia

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003694

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Names and synonyms

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Tateomys macrocercus

Musser, 1982

Family

Muridae

Root name

macrocercus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MZB 224317

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

64

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Musser & Carleton (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8562)
  2. Wilson, Mittermeier & Lacher (2017:876) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57900)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #21507) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #21507) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1003694) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  6. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/21507/240016611) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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