Bunomys Thomas 1910
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Bunomys

description: <i>Bunomys</i> Thomas, 1910. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 6:508. TYPE SPECIES: Mus <i>coelestis</i> Thomas, 1896. SYNONYMS: <i>Bunomys</i> (Grandidier, 1905, not Thomas, 1910), <i>Frateromys.</i> COMMENTS: An endemic of Sulawesi. Recognized as a genus by Tate (1936), but included in <i>Rattus</i> by Ellerman (1941), Simpson (1945), Laurie and Hill (1954), and Misonne (1969); treated as separate genus by Musser and Newcomb (1983), Musser (1984, 1987, 1991), and Corbet and Hill (1991). Phylogenetic relationships unresolved, but part of Sulawesi New Endemics; spermatozoal morphology distinctive although some species resemble that in species of <i>Rattus,</i> but resemblance reflects shared primitive features (Breed and Musser, 1991). Kitchener et al. (1991a) considered <i>Bunomys</i> a very close relative of <i>Paulamys,</i> a Flores endemic; both are probably ecological if not morphological equivalents (Musser et al., 1986). Geographic and altitudinal distributions of species, along with forest types, summarized by Musser and Dagosto (1987), Musser (1991), and Musser and Holden (1991). Grandidier (1905:50) proposed <i>Bunotnys</i> for a Madagascar rat, and Sody (1941:260) used <i>Frateromys,</i> but both are <i>nomina nuda.</i>
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; 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</i> on page 581, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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