Buhler rat

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Buhler rat
Systematics
Family : Long-tailed mice (Muridae)
Subfamily : Old World Mice (Murinae)
Tribe : Hydromyini
Pogonomys group
Genre : Coryphomys
Type : Buhler rat
Scientific name
Coryphomys buehleri
Schaub , 1937

The Bühler rat ( Coryphomys buehleri ) is an extinct rodent from the group of old world mice (Murinae).

So far only subfossil fragments of this rodent are known, which were discovered in limestone caves in the Indonesian West Timor . It was a large representative of the Old World mice with a noticeable pattern on the molars . It was closely related to the also extinct species Spelaeomys florensis that lived on Flores .

There is no precise information about the time or the causes of the extinction of the Bühler rat.

literature

  • KP Aplin, KM Helgen: Quaternary Murid Rodents of Timor Part I: New Material of Coryphomys buehleri ​​Schaub, 1937, and Description of a Second Species of the Genus . In: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . tape 341 , 2010, p. 1-80 , doi : 10.1206 / 692.1 (English).
  • Ronald M. Nowak: Walker's Mammals of the World. 2 volumes. 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD et al. 1999, ISBN 0-8018-5789-9 .
  • Don E. Wilson , DeeAnn M. Reeder (Eds.): Mammal Species of the World. A taxonomic and geographic Reference. 2 volumes. 3. Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2005, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4 .

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