Western New Guinea Mountain Rat
Rattus arrogans (Thomas, 1922)
Also calledKleine Westneuguinea-Ratte (deu) · Rat des Snow (fra) · szczur zuchwały (pol) · جرذ جبال غرب غينيا الجديدة (ara) · セイブニューギニアクマネズミ (jpn)
First described in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9 vol.9 p.263
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
conservation
Conservation: haymani (Ellerman, 1941); klossi Thomas, 1913 [not Bonhote, 1906].
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: Western New Guinea; recorded from the central mountainous backbone of Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya; Pegunungan Maoke) eastward to the Star Mtns in W Papua New Guinea (longitude 141 EE), 2200 - 4050 m (some of the material cited by Taylor et al., 1982 as Rattus niobe arrogans; Flannery and Seri, 1990; specimens in AMNH).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
materials_examined
Type Locality: New Guinea, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), N slopes Snow Mtns (Pegunungan Maoke), Doormanpad-bivak, 2400 m, 03 E 30 ' S, 138 E 30 ' E (Laurie and Hill, 1954).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
biology_ecology
Habitat. Montane moss forest and alpine habitats at elevations of 2200 - 4100 m.
Muridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 4264912.