Hydromys chrysogaster E. Geoffroy 1804
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Hydromys
Hydromys chrysogaster

description: <i>Hydromys chrysogaster</i> E. Geoffroy, 1804. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 93:354. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Tasmania, Bruny Isl (see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:157). DISTRIBUTION: Australia: freshwater lakes and rivers as well as swamp, salt marsh, and supralittoral habitats (absent from central Australian region); also found on Tasmania and numerous smaller islands off the coast of Austalia (Friend and Thomas, 1990; Watts and Aslin, 1981:67); Kei Isis and Aru Isis; New Guinea: throughout most of the island from sea level to 1900 m (see map in Flannery, 1990b:188). Also on Obi Isl in the Moluccas (Flannery, in litt.). SYNONYMS: <i>beccarii, caurinus, esox, fuliginosus, fulvogaster, fulvolavatus, fulvoventer, grootensis, illuteus, lawnensis, leucogaster, longmani, lutrilla, melicertes, moae, nauticus, oriens, reginae.</i> COMMENTS: Considered an Australian member of Hydromyini (Baverstock, 1984). Chromosomal data presented by Baverstock et al. (1977 c, 1983b). Biochemical evidence supports weak link between <i>H. chrysogaster</i> and <i>Xeromys</i> (Baverstock et al., 1981). Morphology of spermatozoa and male reproductive tract discussed in context of comparative study of Australian murines (Breed, 1984, 1986; Breed and Sarafis, 1978; Morrissey and Breed, 1982). References to distributional, taxonomic and biological literature cataloged by Mahoney and Richardson (1988:156). Significance of variation in body size and pelage color needs to be assessed in context of critical systematic revision of the species.
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 597, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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