Leptomys elegans Thomas, 1897

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 : 604-605

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scientific name	Leptomys elegans Thomas, 1897
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Leptomys elegans Thomas, 1897 View in CoL . Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 18:610.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea (= "British New Guinea "), Central Prov., Astrolabe Range behind Port Moresby (according to Tate, 1951:223, but Laurie and Hill, 1954: 132 noted that no exact locality was published) .

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea; known only from Owen Stanley Range below 1250 m from region near and northwest of Port Morseby east to Mt Dayman; limits unknown.

COMMENTS: Poorly represented in museum collections.