Hydromys hussoni Musser & Piik, 1982

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 : 355

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653
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scientific name	Hydromys hussoni Musser & Piik, 1982
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Hydromys hussoni Musser & Piik, 1982 View in CoL

Zool. Med. 56 (13): 157, figs. 1–2; Plate 1, fig. b, Plate 2 fig. b, Plate 3 fig. b. (7 May 1982).

Common name. Western Water Rat.

Current name. Hydromys hussoni Musser & Piik, 1982 ; following Musser & Carleton (2005).

Paratype. M.18627 (= RMNH 29176 About RMNH ), female, skull, study skin, collected on 1 October 1939 by “New Guinea Expedition K.NAG” [= Royal Netherlands Geographical Society] .

Type locality. Via Enarotali village (3°55'40"S 136°22'6"E), 1765 m, on the east side of Paniai Lake, Paniai Lakes district (= Wissel Lakes district), Irian Jaya (= Papua Province, Indonesia) GoogleMaps .

Comments. Specimen RMNH 29176 About RMNH is listed in the original account as a referred specimen but is treated here as a paratype because it was part of the series used to describe the taxon. Exchanged from RMNH (now the National Museum of Natural History Naturalis in Leiden); registered at the AM on 15 February, 1988. See Helgen (2005c) for photographs of the skin and skull of this specimen .