Paraleptomys

Taxobox
name = "Paraleptomys"
fossil_range = Recent
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Muridae
subfamilia = Murinae
genus = "Paraleptomys"
genus_authority = Tate & Archbold, 1941
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Paraleptomys rufilatus"
"Paraleptomys wilhelmina"
range_

range_map_width = 250px
range_map_caption = Distribution map on New Guinea

"Paraleptomys" 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 "Paraleptomys"
**Northern Water Rat ("Paraleptomys rufilatus")
**Short-haired Water Rat ("Paraleptomys wilhelmina")

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.