Xenuromys barbatus (Milne-Edwards, 1900) . Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 6:167.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, "British New Guinea."

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea; Represented by only a few specimens collected along the Central Cordillera from Mt Dayman in E Papua New Guinea to the Idenberg River in Irian Jaya (Flannery, 1990b; Flannery et al., 1985).

STATUS: IUCN - Rare.

SYNONYMS: guba.

COMMENTS: Closest phylogenetic relatives appear to be species of Uromys (Tate, 1951) .