Rattus timorensis Kitchener, Aplin, and Boeadi, 1991 . Rec. West. Aust. Mus., 15:446.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara, Timor, Gunung Mutis, 1900 m, 7 km E Desa Nenas .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

COMMENTS: Represented only by the holotype. Some of the large series of subfossil fragments collected in E Timor by Glover (1986) may be this species. Phylogenetic affinities unknown, and possibly not even a member of Rattus (Kitchener et al., 1991 b) .