Uromys Peters 1867
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Uromys Peters 1867 , Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin: 343.
Type Species: Mus macropus Gray 1866
Synonyms: Gymnomys Gray 1867 .
Species and subspecies: 10 species in 2 subgenera:
Subgenus Uromys (Uromys) Peters 1867
Subgenus Uromys (Cyromys) Thomas 1910
Species Uromys (Uromys) anak Thomas 1907
Species Uromys (Uromys) boeadii Groves and Flannery 1994
Species Uromys (Uromys) caudimaculatus Krefft 1867
Species Uromys (Uromys) emmae Groves and Flannery 1994
Species Uromys (Uromys) hadrourus Winter 1984
Species Uromys (Cyromys) imperator Thomas 1888
Species Uromys (Uromys) neobritannicus Tate and Archbold 1935
Species Uromys (Cyromys) porculus Thomas 1904
Species Uromys (Cyromys) rex Thomas 1888
Species Uromys siebersi Thomas 1923
Discussion: Uromys Division. Member of the New Guinea and Australian Old Endemics ( Musser, 1981 c). Using albumin immunology, Watts and Baverstock (1994 a) clustered Uromys with Melomys and Solomys within a larger clade that includes members of our Hydromys , Xeromys , and Pseudomys Divisions (the "Australasian clade" of Watts and Baverstock, 1995 b, 1996), which occur on New Guinea and Australia, and not in our endemic New Guinea Pogonomys Division or Lorentzimys Division. This cladistic configuration is consistent with chromosomal traits ( Baverstock et al., 1977 c) and sperm morphology ( Breed, 1997; Breed and Aplin, 1994). Revised by Groves and Flannery (1994), who arranged the species in subgenera Uromys and Cyromys (type species = Mus imperator ).
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