A second specimen of the Papuan earless water rat, Crossomys moncktoni

Title Variants

Alternative: Papuan earless water rat

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 1523

By

Tate, G. H. H. (George Henry Hamilton), 1894-1953

Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965
Gilliard New Guinea Expedition 1950-1951

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, American Museum of Natural History, [1951]

Notes

Title from caption.

"June 19, 1951."

Specimen collected in 1950 during the first Gilliard New Guinea Expedition.

"New specimen was caught by the tail ... after it had swum under a rock in a little stream in the kunai grass near Melgavaigis ... a village 10 miles southeast of Tomba, 40 miles from Hagen airfield on the track to Wabag"--P. 3.

Subjects

59.9,32M , Classification , Crossomys moncktoni , Mammals , New Guinea , Rodents

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.1523, 1951

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 31843285