Uromys neobritanicus Tate and Archbold, 1935

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 672

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scientific name	Uromys neobritanicus Tate and Archbold, 1935
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Uromys neobritanicus Tate and Archbold, 1935 View in CoL . Am. Mus. Novit., 803:4.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Arch., New Britain Isl .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to New Britain Isl.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Uromys . Included in U. anak by Ziegler (1982b:882) without explanation, but neobritanicus is diagnosed by distinctive external and cranial traits that are outside the range of morphological variation characteristic of U. anak (Groves and Flannery, in litt.). Chromosomal data reported by Donnellan (1987).