Melomys aerosus (Thomas, 1920)

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 : 615

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scientific name	Melomys aerosus (Thomas, 1920)
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Melomys aerosus (Thomas, 1920) View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 6:428.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Pulau Seram, Mt Manusela, 6000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to Seram Isl.

COMMENTS: Tate (1951:292) suggested a relationship between M. aerosus and the New Guinea M. levipes group, but cranial morphology indicates M. aerosus to be more closely related to Australian species of Melomys , especially M. cervinipes , than to the endemic Melomys of New Guinea (data from specimens in the British Museum of Natural History).