Stenomys vandeuseni (Taylor and Calaby, 1982)

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 : 665

Stenomys vandeuseni (Taylor and Calaby, 1982) . In Taylor et al., Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 173:211.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Maneau Range, N slope Mt Dayman, Middle Camp, 1540 m .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

COMMENTS: Taylor and Calaby described vandeuseni as a subspecies of verecundus ( Taylor et al., 1982) , but its distinctive morphology and habitat indicate otherwise, as the describers even suggested, and as Flannery (19906:245) speculated. Stenomys verecundus occurs on Mt Dayman in rain forest at 700 m and is replaced at 1540 m in montane oak forest by S. vandeuseni , a relationship that is similar to the distributions of Leptomys elegans (rain forest) and L. ernstmayri (oak forest) on Mt Dayman.