Pseudohydromys
Pseudohydromys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Muridae |
Tribe: | Hydromyini |
Genus: | Pseudohydromys Rümmler, 1934 |
Type species | |
Pseudohydromys murinus | |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Mayermys Laurie & Hill, 1954 |
Pseudohydromys is a genus of rodent in the family Muridae endemic to New Guinea. It contains the following species:[1]
- Bishop's moss mouse (Pseudohydromys berniceae) [2]
- Huon small-toothed moss mouse (Pseudohydromys carlae) [2]
- Laurie's moss mouse (Pseudohydromys eleanorae) [2]
- One-toothed shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys ellermani)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys fuscus)
- German's one-toothed moss mouse (Pseudohydromys germani)
- Eastern shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys murinus)
- Musser's shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys musseri)
- Western shrew mouse (Pseudohydromys occidentalis)
- Woolley's moss mouse (Pseudohydromys patriciae) [2]
- Southern small-toothed moss mouse (Pseudohydromys pumehanae) [2]
- White-bellied moss mouse (Pseudohydromys sandrae) [2]
It was not until a 2009 revision that a general idea of the true taxonomic content of this genus was realized.
References
- OCLC 62265494.
- ^ doi:10.1206/582-8.1.