Systematic Reviews of New Guinea Coccymys and “Melomys” Albidens (Muridae, Murinae) with Descriptions of New Taxa

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∞ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (permanence of paper). O n t h e c o v e r : Dorsal and ventr al views of the cr anium of Brassomys albidens (A MNH 150821) .

Gastrointestinal nematodes of Coccymys ruemmleri (Rodentia, Muridae) with the description Montistrongylus giluwensis sp. nov. (Heligmonellidae) and Syphacia coccymyos sp. nov. (Oxyuridae) from Papua New Guinea

“…The species poor assemblages of both C. ruemmleri and Ch. vates may be a consequence of an at least partially arboreal habitat and a largely herbivorous diet (Flannery 1995, Musser andLunde 2009 (32) hosts sampled (Smales 2006), is too small a sample to give any indication of probable species richness.…”

“…Coccymys ruemmleri is a montane species found along the Central Cordillera of New Guinea. There are no first hand observations of the biology of C. ruemmleri (see Musser and Lunde 2009). Its diet may consist only of vegetable matter (Flannery 1995) or be similar to that of its congener Coccymys shawmayeri (Hinton, 1943) and include insects, fruit seeds and vegetation (Musser and Lunde 2009).…”

“…Its diet may consist only of vegetable matter (Flannery 1995) or be similar to that of its congener Coccymys shawmayeri (Hinton, 1943) and include insects, fruit seeds and vegetation (Musser and Lunde 2009). Known to be of partly terrestrial habit, having been found on fallen logs and on the ground (Flannery 1995), it is postulated by Musser and Lunde (2009) that C. ruemmleri also spends time in the forest understory.…”

High resolution images for 'Morphological and geographic definitions of the Sulawesian shrew rats Echiothrix leucura and E. centrosa (Muridae, Murinae), and description of a new species of sucking louse (Phthiraptera, Anoplura).' (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 391)

“…Among murines, this osteological design of the pterygoid-alisphenoid region is repeated only in the Philippine shrew rat Rhynchomys (see the cranial illustrations in Musser and Heaney [1992: 78] and Balete et al [2007: 293]) and the Sulawesian shrew rat Paucidentomys (Esselstyn, et al, 2012). The best way to appreciate this severe modification is to first describe the pterygoid region in the Sulawesian Maxomys dollmani, which expresses a pattern common to nearly all other murines, especially those from the Indomalayan region, Sulawesi, Philippines, New Guinea, and Australia (see the cranial illustrations in Musser, 1982Musser, , 1991Musser and Newcomb, 1983;Musser and Holden, 1991;Musser and Heaney, 1992;Flannery, 1995;Musser et al, 2008;Musser and Lunde, 2009;Heaney et al, 2012;Balete et al, 2012), as well as species in Europe and Africa (see the cranial drawings in Happold, 2013).…”

The mammals of northern Melanesia: biogeography, systematics and ecology

“…To classify New Guinea's zoogeographic provinces I compiled 4194 distributional records for 264 of New Guinea's native mammals from Flannery (1995b), Hitchcock (1997Hitchcock ( , 1998, Bonoccorso (1998), Flannery and Groves (1998), Aplin et al (1999, Van Dyck (2002), Helgen and Flannery (2004a), Helgen (2005aHelgen ( ,c, 2007a, Woolley (2005), Helgen et al (2008Helgen et al ( , 2010Helgen et al ( , 2011, Musser et al (2008), Helgen and Helgen (2009) and Musser and Lunde (2009). Records were allocated to existing mapped bioregions (Wikramanayake et al 2001) and cluster analysis was then used to allocate bioregions to zoogeographic provinces.…”