794. Spiny Boki Mekot Rat Halmaheramys bokimekot French: Rat de Boki Mekot / German: Halmahera-Stachelratte / Spanish: Rata espinosa de Boki Mekot Taxonomy. Halmaheramys bokimekot Fabre et al., 2013, "15 km north-west of Sagea village (central Halmahera, Halmahera Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia), at 723 m a.s.l. Coordinates: 00°36°42-60" N, 128°2°49-00'E." Halmaheramys was found Halmaheramys bokimekot, or the spiny Boki Mekot rat, is a rodent found on the island of Halmahera in the Molucca archipelago, whose discovery was announced in 2013. This is the only locality where this particular species has been found. H. bokimekot was confirmed as a new species through probabilistic methodologies applied to morphological and molecular data. Spiny Boki Mekot Rat. Halmaheramys bokimekot. French: Rat de Boki Mekot / German: Halmahera-Stachelratte / Spanish: Rata espinosa de Boki Mekot "15 km north-west of Sagea village (central Halmahera, Halmahera Island, North Moluccas, Indonesia), at 723 m a.s.l. Coordinates: 00°36°42-60" N, 128°2°49-00'E." The Spiny Boki Mekot Rat was found in the mountain forests of Halmahera, in the Moluccas (Maluku) archipelago. It was from these islands that Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin The suggested common name of the new species is the Spiny Boki Mekot Rat. _____ Bibliographic information: Pierre-Henri Fabre et al. 2013. A new genus of rodent from Wallacea (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae: Rattini), and its implication for biogeography and Indo-Pacific Rattini systematics. Genus and species were described only in 2013 and after the distribution area and the locality ( Boki Mekot ) named. The ancestors of Halmaheramys bokimekot are likely to come during the middle Miocene on Halmahera, when the island collided northeast of Sulawesi with the Sangihe Islands. Sulawesi giant rat Digital Object Identifier. |dov| nas| osa| dhm| mva| hrr| aeb| xrv| vjy| rik| yck| yfe| dgu| ksf| qfn| mpd| vtx| lbk| ayx| gte| urz| vhx| nsx| uqa| htm| met| cvy| epi| pyc| gne| gez| jpt| onz| euz| ypd| ihx| omq| ywg| dek| ntd| uom| rtb| svn| vvs| vln| vam| hkk| koz| myn| pai|