Leptomys

Taxobox
name = "Leptomys"
fossil_range = Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
subfamilia = Murinae
genus = "Leptomys"
genus_authority = Thomas, 1897
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Leptomys elegans"
"Leptomys ernstmayri"
"Leptomys signatus"

"Leptomys" is a genus of rodent from New Guinea. It is considered part of the New Guinea Old Endemics, meaning it was part of the first wave of murine rodents to colonize the island.

pecies

* Genus "Leptomys"
** Long-footed Water Rat ("Leptomys elegans")
** Ernst Mayr's Water Rat ("Leptomys ernstmayri")
** Fly River Water Rat ("Leptomys signatus")

References

*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 "in" Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.