Sundamys Musser and Newcomb 1983

Sundamys Musser and Newcomb 1983, Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 174: 401.

Type Species: Mus muelleri Jentink 1879

Species and subspecies: 3 species:

Species Sundamys infraluteus (Thomas 1888)

Species Sundamys maxi (Sody 1932)

Species Sundamys muelleri (Jentink 1879)

Discussion: Rattus Division. Endemic to the Malay Peninsula and islands on the Sunda Shelf. Revised by Musser and Newcomb (1983), whose analysis of morphological traits placed it phylogenetically closer to Rattus and Kadarsanomys than to other Sundaic genera. The close relationship to Rattus is corroborated by albumin immunology (Watts and Baverstock, 1994 b, 1995 b, 1996), spermatozoal morphology (Breed and Yong, 1986), and analyses of LINE-1 retrotransposons (Verneau et al., 1997, 1998).