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

description: <i>Rattus macleari</i> (Thomas, 1887). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1887:513. TYPE LOCALITY: Christmas Isl (Australia). DISTRIBUTION: Was endemic to Christmas Isl, 320 km south of Java in the Indian Ocean, but was thought to be extinct by 1908 (Andrews, 1909) and is now considered extinct (Flannery, 1990c). COMMENTS: Ellerman (1941) first listed the species as the only member of <i>" macleari "</i> group in subgenus <i>Rattus,</i> then placed it and <i>R. nativitatis</i> in same group within subgenus <i>Stenomys</i> of <i>Rattus</i> (Ellerman, 1949a). Chasen (1940) thought <i>macleari</i> to be nearest <i>Sundamys muelleri,</i> but in their comparisons, Musser and Newcomb (1983) found no support for this alliance. Misonne (1969) included <i>macleari</i> in subgenus <i>Rattus.</i> Sody (1941) proposed genus <i>Christomys</i> for <i>macleari.</i> In the original description, Thomas (1887c) indicated <i>macleari</i> to belong to a group that included <i>celebensis, everetti, meyeri,</i> and <i>xanthurus;</i> of these, only <i>xanthurus</i> resembled <i>macleari</i> (Musser and Newcomb, 1983). Phylogenetic relationships remain unresolved, but Musser (1986) suggested <i>macleari</i> should be compared with a group of species that includes <i>annandalei, enganus, korinchi, montanus, nativitatis,</i> and <i>xanthurus,</i> all not part of subgenus <i>Rattus,</i> and distantly related to it.
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 655, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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