Turvey, Samuel T;
Jeffree, Timothy E;
Macdonald, Alastair A;
Leus, Kristin;
Kennerley, Rosalind J;
Maharadatunkamsi, .;
Kitchener, Andrew C;
(2023)
Continued survival of the elusive Seram orange melomys (Melomys fulgens).
Mammalia
, 87
(3)
pp. 271-275.
10.1515/mammalia-2022-0135.
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Abstract
Many poorly-known small mammals have remained undetected for decades, including Melomys fulgens, a distinctive orange murid from Seram, Indonesia, that has been unrecorded since 1920. We report previously undocumented specimens of M. fulgens collected in 1993 and 1994, and local ecological knowledge from 2017 including descriptions and recent sightings, providing strong indirect evidence of its continued survival in similar habitat to known collection localities. These findings indicate relatively widespread distribution of M. fulgens in low-elevation coastal forest across Seram, raising hope for continued survival of Seram’s other ‘lost’ small mammals.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Continued survival of the elusive Seram orange melomys (Melomys fulgens) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1515/mammalia-2022-0135 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2022-0135 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | extinction; Indonesia; local ecological knowledge; lost species; species rediscovery |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10165890 |
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