Uromys Peters 1867

Uromys Peters 1867, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin: 343.

Type Species: Mus macropus Gray 1866

Synonyms: Gymnomys Gray 1867 .

Species and subspecies: 10 species in 2 subgenera:

Subgenus Uromys (Uromys) Peters 1867

Subgenus Uromys (Cyromys) Thomas 1910

Species Uromys (Uromys) anak Thomas 1907

Species Uromys (Uromys) boeadii Groves and Flannery 1994

Species Uromys (Uromys) caudimaculatus Krefft 1867

Species Uromys (Uromys) emmae Groves and Flannery 1994

Species Uromys (Uromys) hadrourus Winter 1984

Species Uromys (Cyromys) imperator Thomas 1888

Species Uromys (Uromys) neobritannicus Tate and Archbold 1935

Species Uromys (Cyromys) porculus Thomas 1904

Species Uromys (Cyromys) rex Thomas 1888

Species Uromys siebersi Thomas 1923

Discussion: Uromys Division. Member of the New Guinea and Australian Old Endemics (Musser, 1981 c). Using albumin immunology, Watts and Baverstock (1994 a) 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, 1995 b, 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., 1977 c) 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).