Hydromys hussoni Musser and Piik, 1982

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 : 597

Hydromys hussoni Musser and Piik, 1982 . Zool. Meded. Leiden, 56:157.

TYPE LOCALITY: New Guinea, Irian Jaya, Wissel Lakes, Lake Paniai, Enarotali, 1765 m (see Musser and Piik, 1982, for other details) .

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea; known only from the Wissel Lakes region in Irian Jaya and from the Maprik area in East Sepik Prov. of Papua New Guinea (see maps in Flannery, 1990b:186; Musser and Piik, 1982:156); limits unknown.

COMMENTS: Overall morphology and anatomical propotions of H. hussoni are like those of H. chrysogaster , although it is much smaller than that species ( Musser and Piik, 1982).