Hyomys goliath (Milne-Edwards, 1900)

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 : 600

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scientific name	Hyomys goliath (Milne-Edwards, 1900)
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Hyomys goliath (Milne-Edwards, 1900) View in CoL . Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 6:165.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Central Prov., highlands of Aroa River basin .

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea; Central Cordillera from Mt Dayman in the east to Kratke Mts in the west, and mountains of Huon Peninsula; limits unknown.

SYNONYMS: meeki , strobilurus (see Laurie and Hill, 1954).

COMMENTS: This is the large-bodied species with prominent white auricular tufts that is identified as meeki in the older literature.