Chiruromys Thomas, 1888

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 : 584

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Chiruromys Thomas, 1888 View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888:237.

TYPE SPECIES: Chiruromys forbesi Thomas, 1888 View in CoL .

COMMENTS: Member of the New Guinea Old Endemics. Chromosomal and morphometric study, but not a systematic revision, produced by Dennis and Menzies (1979). Closest phylogenetic relative was thought to be Pogonomys (e.g., Tate, 1951), but is not that genus, and remains to be discovered. Flannery (1990b) provided photographs of the species and summarized distributional and biological information.