Category
page 1Mammals described in 1981

Black Musk Deer
species of mammal

Namdapha flying squirrel
species of mammal

Handley's slender opossum
species of mammal

Mindoro Climbing Rat
species of mammal
Petaurus abidi
species of mammal

Flamarion's tuco-tuco
species of mammal

Ilin Island cloudrunner
species of mammal

Bishop's slender opossum
species of mammal

Isarog shrew rat
species of mammal

Bunn's short-tailed bandicoot rat
species of mammal

Pinheiro's slender opossum
species of mammal

Peterson's Free-tailed Bat
species of mammal

Elegant Margareta rat
species of mammal

Little Margareta rat
species of mammal

Verhoeven's Giant Tree Rat
species of mammal

Hipposideros maggietaylorae
species of mammal

Oligoryzomys chacoensis
species of mammal

Oecomys cleberi
species of mammal
Sus scrofa davidi
subspecies of mammal
Paulamys
Paulamys is a genus of rat. Its only known member is Paulamys naso, a species endemic to Flores Island, Indonesia. Paulamys naso was first described from subfossil fragments collected in the 1950s by Theodor Verhoeven and was named Floresomys naso by Guy Musser in 1981. Since Floresomys was preoccupied, Musser changed the name to Paulamys, after Verhoeven's life partner Paula Hamerlinck. A living specimen was reported from the montane forest of western Flores in 1989. It is recorded as common between above sea level on the volcanic mountain Gunung Ranakah, but is believed to be threatened by h