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.