Neohydromys fuscus Laurie, 1952

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 : 632

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Neohydromys fuscus Laurie, 1952 View in CoL . Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Zool., 1:311.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Chimbu Prov., N slopes Mt Wilhelm, 9000- 10,000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea; scattered localities from Mt Wilhelm east to highlands of Wau region (see map in Flannery, 1990b:l 80).

COMMENTS: Phallic morphology similar to that characterizing Mayermys (Lidicker, 1968) . Certain derived cranial and dental features unite Neohydromys , Mayermys , and Pseudohydromys as close relatives (e.g., all share the derived pattern of cephalic arterial circulation; Musser and Heaney, 1992).