Xenuromys Tate and Archbold 1941

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 : 1519

Xenuromys Tate and Archbold 1941

Xenuromys Tate and Archbold 1941 , Am. Mus . Novit., 1101: 3.

Type Species: Mus barbatus Milne-Edwards 1900

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Xenuromys barbatus (Milne-Edwards 1900)

Discussion: Pogonomys Division. Member of the New Guinea Old Endemics ( Musser, 1981 c). Generally regarded as morphologically similar to Uromys and phylogenetically related to it (Flannery, 1995 a; Tate, 1951; Watts and Baverstock, 1994 a), but sperm morphology is unlike most members of our Uromys Division and resembles many forms in our Pogonomys Division ( Breed and Aplin, 1994). Our allocation to the latter cluster is provisional and must be tested by phylogenetic analyses of gene sequences and other kinds of morphological character sets.