Unicomys ponceleti Troughton, 1935
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Muridae
- genus
- Solomys
- species
- Solomys ponceleti
description
Condition. Cranium and dentaries complete. Whole skin in alc.
description
Current name. Solomys ponceleti (Troughton, 1935 c), following Musser & Carleton (2005).
discussion
Comments. Troughton indicates a type series of three specimens. Two further specimens from Poncelet were registered in September 1937: M. 6341, female, skull, study skin from “ Koniguari, 18 miles inland from Buin ”, and M. 6342, female, skull, skin in alc., from “ Monoukeu ”. A photograph of the holotype as a whole body (i. e. prior to skinning) was given in the original description; it is not known whether the skinned body in alcohol was retained in the Collection.
distribution
Type locality. “ About 10 miles inland from Buin, south Bougainville Island ” (Troughton, 1935 c), North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea.
materials_examined
Holotype. M. 5756 by original designation. Female adult, [Field no. 347], skull, skin in alc., locality in register is “ Buin, S. Bougainville Id. ”, collected and donated by Father J. B. Poncelet in 1934, registered December 1934. Month of collection not indicated.
materials_examined
Paratypes. (2, by original designation). S. 1940, skull; S. 1941, cranium only; both specimens are unsexed skulls, both registered December 1934, same data as holotype. S Register entries for both specimens state “ skin nil ”.
vernacular_names
Common name. Poncelet’s Giant Rat.
Name
- Homonyms
- Unicomys ponceleti Troughton, 1935