Pseudohydromys sandrae Helgen & Helgen, 2009

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 368

Pseudohydromys sandrae Helgen & Helgen, 2009

Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 331: 267, figs 14, 18; tables 3, 5. (15 December 2009).

Common name. White-bellied Moss-mouse.

Current name. Pseudohydromys sandrae Helgen & Helgen, 2009 .

Holotype. M.14168 by original designation. Male, Field no. E1205, skull, flat skin, collected [26] September 1979 by P. D. Dwyer; registered 12 June 1986.

Condition. Cranium missing jugal bone from both zygomatic arches, holes in the left and right temporal bones, two holes in the occipital area (which is loosely held together); right dentary has loose 1st molar and missing coronoid process; left dentary complete. Incomplete and damaged flat skin: missing right front limb, missing most of tail (only c. 2cm present), both left limbs almost detached.

Type locality. Namosado, Mt Sisa (= Mt Haliago, 6°12'S 142°46'E), alt. between 800–850 m [in the upper Strickland catchment], Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

Comments. Described from the only known specimen, photographs of skull and skin given in the original account. The original account locates the type locality in the Kikori River Basin but Dwyer (1990) indicates that it is in the upper Strickland catchment.