Uromys Peters, 1867

Cramb, Jonathan, Hocknull, Scott A. & Price, Gilbert J., 2020, Fossil Uromys (Rodentia: Murinae) from Central Queensland, with a Description of a New Middle Pleistocene Species, Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 72 (5), pp. 175-191 : 179

Uromys Peters, 1867

Synonyms: Gymnomys Gray, 1867 ; Cyromys Thomas, 1910 ; Melanomys Winter, 1983 (but see Jackson & Groves, 2015, for explanation).

Included species:

Uromys caudimaculatus (Krefft, 1867)

Uromys imperator ( Thomas, 1888)

Uromys rex ( Thomas, 1888)

Uromys porculus ( Thomas, 1904)

Uromys anak Thomas, 1907

Uromys sherrini Thomas, 1923a

Uromys siebersi Thomas, 1923b

Uromys neobrittanicus Tate & Archbold, 1935 Uromys hadrourus (Winter, 1984)

Uromys boeadii Groves & Flannery, 1994

Uromys emmae Groves & Flannery, 1994

Uromys vika Lavery & Judge, 2017

Generic diagnosis: Groves & Flannery (1994) considered three cranial characters (with the addition of one soft-tissue character) to be diagnostic of species of Uromys : a hard palate that extends posterior of the posterior margin of M 3, I 1 is much deeper than it is wide, and a greatly expanded anterolateral spine on the auditory bulla.