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Malagasy rodent. The only thing I want to know is whether or not you tried contacting Carleton about a photo? (I know Goodman doesn't respond to email, so I won't ask about him.)
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Potentially a note to add to the conservation status section that they have been kept in capitivity for some time/note that they were released (if they were)? I'm not sure; I'm just trying to think of things someone may reasonably ask about the species.
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Thanks. Nesomyinae is a far older taxon than the family it is placed in (which was only established in 2004), so I think it's more significant. However, I've added the family to the lead sentence; this agrees with most of my rice rat articles (e.g.,
181:- sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. I ran the article through Coren's tool and Earwig's tool and nothing showed up in regards to plagiarism with those tools. (Wow, it's a mouse! Where's the mushroom and the lemur???)
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Volume 2, but since the page numbering is continuous across the two volumes, it doesn't seem necessary to add that (the volume is not mentioned in the numerous other featured articles that cite Wilson and Reeder ).
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Probably (though frugivorous and graminivorous are more precise terms), but I don't see much of a need; I think it's better to just say what they eat than to attempt to apply some label.
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Rodents tend not to have much sexual dimorphism, but there is nothing in the sources explicitly discussing that in this species, so I don't think there is much to include.
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