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Genus Pogonomys Milne-Edwards, 1877

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Genus Pogonomys Milne-Edwards, 1877

  • Pogonomys Milne-Edwards, A. 1877. Note sur quelques mammifères nouveaux provenant de la Nouvelle-Guinée. Comptes Rendus (Hebdomadaires) des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences. Série D. Sciences Naturelles 85: 1079-1081 [1081] [proposed with generic and subgeneric rank as alternatives].
    Type species:
     Pogonomys macrourus Milne-Edwards, 1877 by monotypy.

 

Excluded Taxa

MURIDAE: Pogonomys macrourus Milne-Edwards, 1977, see Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. & Koeppl, J.W. (eds) 1982. Mammal Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Lawrence, Kansas : Allen Press & Assoc. Syst. Coll. ix 694 pp. [542] (for Australian record).

Muridae: Pogonomys mollipilosus Peters & Doria, 1881.

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

  • Indonesia

Distribution References

  • Laurie, E.M.O. & Hill, J.E. 1954. List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands 1758–1952. London : British Museum 175 pp. 3 pls
  • Menzies, J.I. & Dennis, E. 1979. Handbook of New Guinea Rodents. Handbook No. 6. Wau : Wau Ecology Institute vi 68 pp. 8 pls
  • Ziegler, A.C. 1982. An ecological check-list of New Guinea Recent mammals. pp. 863-894 in Gressitt, J.L. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea. The Hague & London : W. Junk Vol. 2(4) vii 983 pp.