Paulamys naso (Musser, 1981)

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 : 639

Paulamys naso (Musser, 1981) . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 169:112.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda Isis), Pulau Flores, Menggarai Prov., Liang Toge, cave near Warukia, 1 km south of Lepa .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Flores Isl.

COMMENTS: Originally described and known only from subfossil fragments ( Musser, 1981c; Musser et al., 1986), but one extant specimen has been referred to this species by Kitchener et al. (1991a), who suggested it is closely related to Sulawesian Bunomys . This assessment needs testing by study of more extant specimens of P. naso in a phylogenetic context that would also compare the sample to species of native New Guinea and Australian Rattus .