Anisomys Thomas, 1904 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1903(2):199 [1904].

TYPE SPECIES: Anisomys imitator Thomas, 1904 .

COMMENTS: Lidicker (1968) documented phallic morphology of Anisomys and other New Guinea endemic murines, and concluded that the phallic morphology of Anisomys retained a high proportion of ancestral states. Used as the type genus of Tribe Anisomyini by Lidicker and Brylski (1987). Member of the New Guinea Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c).