Bunomys coelestis (Thomas, 1896) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 18:248.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, SW Sulawesi, Bonthain Peak (Gunung Lampobatang), 6000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Sulawesi; known only from the slopes of Gunung Lampobatang.

COMMENTS: Listed as a species of Bunomys by Tate (1936), as a species of Rattus in the “ coelestis group" by Ellerman (1941, 1949a), but as a species in subgenus Rattus by Laurie and Hill (1954). Musser (1981 c) and Musser and Newcomb (1983) included coeiestis in B. chrysocomus, but Musser (1991) and Musser and Holden (1991) treated it as a species restricted to montane forest formations on south end of SW peninsula.