Uromys Peters, 1867 . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 343.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus macropus Gray, 1866 (= Hapalotis caudimaculatus Krefft, 1867).

SYNONYMS: Cyromys, Gymnomys, Melanomys (Winter, 1983, not Thomas, 1902).

COMMENTS: Member of the New Guinea and Australian Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c). The genus has been revised by Groves and Flannery (in litt.), who arrange the species in two subgenera, Uromys and Cyromys).