Hydromys neobrittanicus Tate and Archbold, 1935

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 : 597

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scientific name	Hydromys neobrittanicus Tate and Archbold, 1935
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Hydromys neobrittanicus Tate and Archbold, 1935 View in CoL . Am. Mus. Novit., 803:8.

TYPE LOCALITY: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain Isl, Wide Bay, Balayang, Bainings .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from New Britain Isl.

COMMENTS: Included in H. chrysogaster by Ziegler (1982b:883), but it was recognized as a New Britain endemic by Flannery and White (1991) and should retain this status until the significance of its diagnostic traits can be assessed in a systematic revision of the large-bodied forms of Hydromys , as Tate (1951:236) already noted.