Melomys fellowsi Hinton, 1943 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 11, 10:554.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Purari-Ramu Divide, Baiyanka, 8000 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea; known only from a few places at high elevations in the central highlands; see map in Flannery (1990b:222).

COMMENTS: A distinctive species that resembles M. rufescens and M. leucogaster in some morphometric features (Menzies, 1990).