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GENUS Uromys
| Author: | Peters, 1867. | | Citation: | Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin: 343. | | Type Species: | Mus macropus Gray, 1866 (= Hapalotis caudimaculatus Krefft, 1867). | | Comments: | UromysDivision. Member of the New Guinea and Australian Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c). Using albumin immunology, Watts and Baverstock (1994a) 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, 1995b, 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., 1977c) 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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