Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
Reference for:
Xenuromys
Expert:
Michael D. Carleton
Notes:
Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
Reference for:
Xenuromys
Source(s):
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Xenuromys
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Superfamily Muroidea
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
Page(s):
894-1531
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Xenuromys
Xenuromys: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Xenuromys: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Pogonomys Division. Member of the New Guinea Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c). Generally regarded as morphologically similar to Uromys and phylogenetically related to it (Flannery, 1995a; Tate, 1951; Watts and Baverstock, 1994a), 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 ki...