Pogonomys macrourus (Milne-Edwards, 1877) . C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 85: 1081.

TYPE LOCALITY: New Guinea, Irian Jaya, Vogelkop, Arfak Mtns, Amberbaki .

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea; throughout lowland and midmontane forests from sea level to 1500 m (see map in Flannery, 19906:203); also recorded from Yapen (Japen Isl) and New Britain Isl in the Bismarck Arch (Rümmler, 1938).

SYNONYMS: derimapa, huon, lepidus, mollipilosus (see Tate, 1951; Dennis and Menzies, 1979).

COMMENTS: Phallic morphology described by Lidicker (1968).