Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Muridae
Subfamilia: Murinae
Genus: Papagomys
Species: †Papagomys theodorverhoeveni
Name
- †Papagomys theodorverhoeveni Musser, 1981: 95
Holotype: RGM 195620, young adult indet., right dentary containing a complete molar row.
Type locality: “Liang Toge, a cave near Warukia, 1 km. south of Lepa, in Menggarai Province, western Flores,” Indonesia.
References
Primary references
- Musser, G.G. 1981. The giant rat of Flores and its relatives east of Borneo and Bali. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 169: 67–176. handle Reference page.
Additional references
- Suyanto, A. & Watts, C.H.S. 2002. Verhoeven’s giant rat of Flores, Indonesia (Papagomys theodorverhoeveni Musser, 1981; Muridae) is a modern species. Treubia 32: 87–93. DOI: 10.14203/treubia.v32i1.592
- Zijlstra, J.S., van den Hoek Ostende, L.W. & Due, R.A. 2008. Verhoeven's giant rat of Flores (Papagomys theodorverhoeveni, Muridae) extinct after all?. Contributions to Zoology 77(1): 25–31. Full article (PDF)
- Knepper, Gert M. (2019): Floresmens - Het leven van Theo Verhoeven, missionaris en archeoloog. ISBN 978-9-46-3892476 (Boekscout, Soest, The Netherlands) (= Verhoeven's biography, in Dutch)
Links
- Papagomys theodorverhoeveni in Mammal Species of the World.
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.