Xenuromys barbatus (Milne-Edwards, 1900)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 673

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scientific name	Xenuromys barbatus (Milne-Edwards, 1900)
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Xenuromys barbatus (Milne-Edwards, 1900) View in CoL . Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 6:167.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, "British New Guinea."

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea; Represented by only a few specimens collected along the Central Cordillera from Mt Dayman in E Papua New Guinea to the Idenberg River in Irian Jaya ( Flannery, 1990b; Flannery et al., 1985).

STATUS: IUCN - Rare.

SYNONYMS: guba.

COMMENTS: Closest phylogenetic relatives appear to be species of Uromys ( Tate, 1951) .