First scientific observation of the largest Sahulian rodent, Mallomys istapantap, in the wild
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F25%3A00619356" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/25:00619356 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/25:43909887
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/mammalia-2024-0153/html" target="_blank" >https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/mammalia-2024-0153/html</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2024-0153" target="_blank" >10.1515/mammalia-2024-0153</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
First scientific observation of the largest Sahulian rodent, Mallomys istapantap, in the wild
Original language description
The largest rodent of the Australian and Oceanian zoogeographic regions, the Subalpine Woolly Rat Mallomys istapantap, endemic to the tropical high mountains of New Guinea, has been scientifically observed and documented alive in the wild for the first time. Camera trap images and video, as well as photographs of the habitat (Mt. Wilhelm, 3,200-3,700 masl) and hunting with indigenous people, deepen our understanding of the activity patterns, locomotion, diet, intrageneric elevational partitioning, and behavioural ecology of the woolly rats. I report the first measurements of males of the species and discuss a previously unreported morphological trait. These are the first specimen records in 30 years for this spectacular mammal poorly known to science.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Mammalia
ISSN
0025-1461
e-ISSN
1864-1547
Volume of the periodical
89
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
376-381
UT code for WoS article
001469366600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105003225011