Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
Reference for:
Leptomys elegans
Expert:
Michael D. Carleton
Notes:
Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
Reference for:
Leptomys elegans
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:
Leptomys elegans
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:
Leptomys elegans
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Musser, Guy G., Kristfer M. Helgen, and Darrin P. Lunde
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2008-09-10 / 2008-09-10
Article/Chapter Title:
Systematic review of New Guinea Leptomys (Muridae, Murinae) with descriptions of two new species
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
American Museum Novitates, no. 3624
Page(s):
1-60
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0003-0082
Notes:
Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5935
Reference for:
Leptomys elegans
Leptomys elegans: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Australia
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Leptomys elegans: Comments
Comment:
Status: IUCN - Critically Endangered
Comment:
Comments: Poorly represented in museum collections. Leary and Seri (1997) collected three from the Kikori River Basin in S Papua, one from 450 m, the other from 1280-1300 m. They grumbled about Musser and Carleton's (1993) reference to original published descriptions as a revision of Leptomys and that these primary literature sources were unclear in distinguishing L. elegans from L. ernstmayri, but were still able to determine their three specimens to be the stockier species as Flannery (1995a) and R...