Coccymys albidens (Tate, 1951)

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 : 585

Coccymys albidens (Tate, 1951) . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 97:286.

TYPE LOCALITY: New Guinea, Irian Jaya, 15 mi N Mt Wilhelmina, Lake Habbema, 3225 m .

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea, Irian Jaya; known only from the type locality and 9 km NE Lake Habbema, 2800 m.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.

COMMENTS: Still represented only by the six specimens in the type series collected in 1938. Originally described as a species of Melomys ( Tate, 1951) , but its diagnostic traits are unlike those defining species within that genus, and similar to those characterizing ruemmleri . This conclusion reached independently by Flannery (1990b) and Menzies (1990), although neither of them formally allocated albidens and ruemmleri to the same genus.