Mayermys Laurie and Hill, 1954

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 : 614

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Mayermys Laurie and Hill, 1954 View in CoL . List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands, p. 133.

TYPE SPECIES: Mayermys ellermani Laurie and Hill, 1954 View in CoL .

COMMENTS: Member of the New Guinea Old Endemics ( Musser, 1981c:167). Phallic morphology similar to Neohydromys (Lidicker, 1968) . Mayermys , Leptomys , Neohydromys , and Pseudohydromys share a derived configuration of cephalic arterial pattern ( Musser and Heaney, 1992).