Pogonomelomys sevia (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 : 641

Pogonomelomys sevia (Tate and Archbold, 1935) . Am. Mus. Novit., 803:3.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Huon Peninsula, Cromwell Range, Sevia, 1400 m .

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea; Central Cordillera of Papua New Guinea from Star Mtns in the west to the Wau region of Morobe Prov. in the east, including mountains of Huon Peninsula ( Flannery, 1990b; Menzies, 1990).

SYNONYMS: tatei .

COMMENTS: Originally described as a species of Melomys by Tate and Archbold (1935) and subsequently transferred to Pogonomelomys by Rümmler (1938) where it remained ( Laurie and Hill, 1954; Tate, 1951) until Menzies (1990) made sevia the type species of Abeomelomys . The species has always been considered distinctive compared to mayeri and bruijnii ( Flannery, 1990b; Tate, 1951), but the traits used by Menzies to diagnose Abeomelomys do not distinguish that genus from Pogonomelomys.