Uromys hadrourus (Winter, 1983)

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 : 671-672

Uromys hadrourus (Winter, 1983) . In The Australian Museum Complete Book of Australian Mammals (R. Strahan, ed.), p. 379.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, NE Queensland, Thornton Peak summit area, 1200 m (see Winter, 1984, for additional data) .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only by five specimens (Groves and Flannery, in litt.) from rainforest on Mareeba Franite of the Thornton Peak massif ( Winter, 1983, 1984).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Uromys . Originally described as a species of Melomys, Groves and Flannery (in litt.) have shown that hadrourus belongs in Uromys and is closely related to U. caudimaculatus . U. hadrourus is a member of a group of species that are endemic to "the Townsville to Cooktown region, and considered to be relicts of a wet- and cool-adapted fauna which may have orinigated in Australia from a common pre-Pleisocene stock of Australia and New Guinea " ( Winter, 1984:525). Chromosomal morphology reported by Baverstock et al. (1977c). McAllan and Bruce (1989) explained why 1983 is the publication date for hadrourus instead of 1984 as is usually accepted, and pointed out that the species was first given the name Melanomys hadrourus . That generic name is preoccupied by Melanomys Thomas, 1902 .