Tateomys Musser, 1969 . Am. Mus. Novit., 2384:2.

TYPE SPECIES: Tateomys rhinogradoides Musser, 1969 .

COMMENTS: Originally, and incorrectly, linked to the " Rattus chrysocomus group " by Musser (1969b), but morphological, spermatozoal, and ecological characteristics clearly united Tateomys and the other Sulawesian shrew rat Melasmothrix in the same monophyletic group to the exclusion of either Rattus, Bunomys, or any other Sulawesian endemic (Breed and Musser, 1991; Musser, 1982c). Listed as part of the Sulawesi Old Endemics by Musser (1981c).