Baiyankamys shawmayeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Muroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Euarchontoglires Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Myomorpha Superfamilia: Muroidea

Familia: Muridae
Subfamilia: Murinae
Genus: Baiyankamys
Species: Baiyankamys shawmayeri

Name

• Baiyankamys shawmayeri Hinton, 1943: 552

Lectotype: BMNH 1947.1173, adult ♂, skin and skull. [designated by Mahoney (1968: 67)]

Type locality: “Baiyanka, Purari-Ramu Divide, South-East Bismarck Range, North-East New Guinea [=Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea]. Altitude 6500 ft [=1980 m.].”

Combinations

• Hydromys shawmayeri: Flannery, 1995 [name combination]

References

Primary references

• Hinton, M.A.C. 1943. Preliminary diagnoses of five new murine rodents from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 11, 10(68): 552–557. DOI: 10.1080/03745481.1943.9728040 Reference page. 
• Mahoney, J. A. 1968. Baiyankamys Hinton, 1943 (Muridae, Hydromyinae), a New Guinea rodent genus named from an incorrectly associated skin and skull (Hydromyinae, Hydromys) and mandible (Murinae, Rattus). Mammalia 32(1): 64–71. DOI: 10.1515/mamm.1968.32.1.64 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Helgen, K.M. 2005. The amphibious murines of New Guinea (Rodentia, Muridae): The generic status of Baiyankamys and description of a new species of Hydromys. Zootaxa 913: 1–20. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. 

Links

• Hydromys shawmayeri in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Aplin, K., Dickman, C., Singadan, R., Menzies, J., Helgen, K., Wright, D. & Allison, A. 2016. IUCN: Baiyankamys shawmayeri  (Least Concern). (errata version published in 2017) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T10314A115097322. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T10314A22410031.en

Vernacular names

English: Shaw Mayer's Water Rat