Hydromys E. Geoffroy, 1804

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

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Hydromys E. Geoffroy, 1804 View in CoL . Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 3(93):353.

TYPE SPECIES: Hydromys chrysogaster E. Geoffroy, 1804 View in CoL .

SYNONYMS: Baiyankamys .

COMMENTS: Member of the Australian and New Guinea Old Endemics ( Musser, 1981c:167). Comparisons with Neotropical ichthyomyines made by Voss (1988). Flannery (1990b) provided photographs and distributional and biological summaries of species. Phallic morphology of H. chrysogaster and H. habbema described by Lidicker (1968). Mahoney (1968) explained why Baiyankamys is a synonym of Hydromys .