Papuan Abeomelomys – Abeomelomys sevia

Abeomelomys seviaTate and Archbold, 1935

Hyväksytty nimi, Maailman nisäkkäiden luettelo 2005

"Originally described as a species of Melomys (Tate and Archbold, 1935) and subsequently transferred to Pogonomelomys (Rümmler, 1938) where it remained (Laurie and Hill, 1954; Tate, 1951) until sevia was made the type species of Abeomelomys (Menzies, 1990). Morphology of sevia has always been considered distinctive compared to mayeri and bruijnii, the two species of Pogonomelomys (Flannery, 1990b; Tate, 1951), but whether it should be separated from that genus remains a question because the traits used by Menzies to diagnose Abeomelomys simply duplicated the diagnostic morphological characters of sevia and did not identify Abeomelomys as a separate monophyletic group in any phylogenetic sense. Furthermore, Menzies (1990:134) distinguished A. sevia from the two species of Pogonomelomys by only its ""grey-based ventral fur and the relatively long incisive foramina."" Subsequently, Menzies (1996... [truncated]"

• Wilson, D and Reeder, D. (eds.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. -- 2142 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press.