Anisomys Thomas, 1904

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 : 569

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

TYPE SPECIES: Anisomys imitator Thomas, 1904 View in CoL .

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).