Pogonomelomys bruijni (Peters and Doria, 1876) . Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 8:336.

TYPE LOCALITY: W New Guinea, Irian Jaya, Pulau Salawati, off W coast of Vogelkop .

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea; known only by 11 specimens from type locality, Vogelkop mainland, lower Fly River, and low altitudes on Mt Bosavi and Mt Sisa in Papua New Guinea (Menzies, 1990).

SYNONYMS: brassi.

COMMENTS: The lowland morphological and phylogenetic counterpart of the highland P. mayeri .