Hyomys Thomas, 1904

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 : 599

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scientific name	Hyomys Thomas, 1904
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Hyomys Thomas, 1904 View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1903(2):198 [1904].

TYPE SPECIES: Hyomys meeki Thomas, 1904 (= Mus goliath Milne-Edwards, 1900 ).

COMMENTS: Member of the New Guinea Old Endemics ( Musser, 1981c). Phallic morphology documented by Lidicker (1968). Photograph and distributional and biological data summarized by Flannery (1990b). Whether only one or more species are present in this genus has never been satisfactorily resolved ( Flannery, 1990b; Riimmler, 1938; Tate, 1951), but examination of museum specimens revealed the two species listed below.