Paraleptomys rufilatus Osgood, 1945

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 : 638

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scientific name	Paraleptomys rufilatus Osgood, 1945
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Paraleptomys rufilatus Osgood, 1945 View in CoL . Fieldiana Zool., 31:1.

TYPE LOCALITY: New Guinea, Irian Jaya, Cyclops Mtns, Mt Dafonsero, 4700 ft .

DISTRIBUTION: NC New Guinea; known only from N Coast Ranges in Irian Jaya (Cyclops Mtns) and adjacent Papua New Guinea (Torricelli Mtns); see map in Flannery (19905:179).

COMMENTS: A very distinct species (Flannery, 19905; Osgood, 1945) that along with Microhydromys musseri and Petaurus abidi is endemic to the N Coastal Ranges (Flannery, 19905).