Uromys (Uromys) boeadii Groves and Flannery 1994

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1514

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scientific name	Uromys (Uromys) boeadii Groves and Flannery 1994
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Uromys (Uromys) boeadii Groves and Flannery 1994 , Rec. Aust. Mus ., 46: 157.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), Geelvinck Bay, Pulau Biak, 25 km northeast of Biak (town), 65 m (Flannery, 1995 b) .

Vernacular Names: Biak Island Uromys.

Distribution: Known only by the holotype collected on Pulau Biak.

Discussion: Subgenus Uromys . Regarded as a primitive member of the subgenus (Flannery, 1995 b) and "the plesiomorphic sister-group to all other species of subgenus Uromys " ( Groves and Flannery (1994:164).