Papagomys Sody 1941

Papagomys Sody 1941, Treubia, 18: 322.

Type Species: Mus armandvillei Jentink 1892

Species and subspecies: 2 species:

Species Papagomys armandvillei (Jentink 1892)

Species Papagomys theodorverhoeveni Musser 1981

Discussion: Rattus Division. Formerly thought closely related to Mallomys but has little affinity to that New Guinea Old Endemic and instead is phylogenetically related to the living Komodomys rintjanus and Pleistocene Hooijeromys nusatenggara, both endemics of Nusa Tenggara (Musser, 1981 c) and members of the Rattus Division. This association is indicated by cranial and dental morphology (Musser and Newcomb, 1993) along with albumin immunology (Watts and Baverstock, 1994 b). Pavlinov et al. (1995 a) listed Papagomys and Komodomys in a Pithecheir Section of a more inclusive Micromys Group. Hooijeromys is the only rat found in late Pleistocene sediments on Flores (0.8-0.7 million years ago) and is part of an extinct depauperate insular fauna that also consisted of the living Varanus komodoensis (Komodo dragon), the elephantid Stegodon florensis, and Homo erectus (Sondaar et al., 1994; Van den Bergh et al., 2001). The two species of Papagomys were reviewed by Musser (1981 c).