Uromys Peters, 1867

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 : 671

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scientific name	Uromys Peters, 1867
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Uromys Peters, 1867 View in CoL . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 343.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus macropus Gray, 1866 View in CoL (= Hapalotis caudimaculatus Krefft, 1867 View in CoL ).

SYNONYMS: Cyromys , Gymnomys, Melanomys ( Winter, 1983, not Thomas, 1902).

COMMENTS: Member of the New Guinea and Australian Old Endemics ( Musser, 1981c). The genus has been revised by Groves and Flannery (in litt.), who arrange the species in two subgenera, Uromys and Cyromys ).