Parahydromys Poche, 1906 . Zool. Anz., 30:326.

TYPE SPECIES: Limnomys asper Thomas, 1906 .

SYNONYMS: Drosomys, Limnomys (Thomas, 1906, not Mearns, 1905).

COMMENTS: Member of the New Guinea Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c). Phallic morphology of incomplete specimen described by Lidicker (1968).