Paulamys Musser 1986

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1435

Paulamys Musser 1986

Paulamys Musser 1986 , in: Musser et al., Am. Mus . Novit., Vol. 2850: 2.

Type Species: Floresomys naso Musser 1981

Synonyms: Floresomys Musser 1981 .

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Paulamys naso (Musser 1981)

Discussion: Rattus Division. Phylogenetically most closely related to Sulawesian Bunomys as assessed by morphology ( Kitchener et al., 1991 a), and the Timorese Rattus timorensis as inferred from albumin immunology ( Watts and Baverstock, 1994 b); included in Bunomys by Corbet and Hill (1992). This postulated affinity between Paulamys and Bunomys needs testing by study of more extant specimens of P. naso in a phylogenetic context that would also compare the sample with species of native New Guinea, Nusa Tenggara, and Australian Rattus , along with Sulawesi Bunomys . Musser’s Floresomys is invalid because of Fries et al.’s (1955) Floresomys , an Eocene geomyoid ( McKenna and Bell, 1997:181).