Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
Reference for:
Echiothrix
Expert:
Michael D. Carleton
Notes:
Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
Reference for:
Echiothrix
Source(s):
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Echiothrix
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Superfamily Muroidea
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
Page(s):
894-1531
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Echiothrix
Echiothrix: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
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Echiothrix: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Echiothrix Division. Thomas (1898b:397) explained why Echiothrix is the proper name and not Craurothrix, which he earlier proposed thinking Echiothrix was preoccupied. Based upon shared cranial features, Thomas (1898b) thought Echiothrix to be related to the Philippine Rhynchomys and placed them in the Rhynchomyinae. Later workers disagreed (see summaries in Musser, 1969b, 1990), and, except to recognize that Echiothrix is an Old Endemic of Sulawesi (Musser, 1981c), no one has discovered th...