Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Mallomys istapantap Flannery, Aplin, Groves, and Adams, 1989 . Rec. Aust . Mus., 41:96 . TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea , Mt Hagen Dist., Korelum ( Flannery et al., 1989 , provided additional data) . DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea ; high altitudes along Central Cordillera from Mt Victoria in Owen Stanley Range of E Papua New Guinea to Bele River region in Irian Jaya. COMMENTS: Published records are only from the Central Cordillera in Papua New Guinea (see map in Flannery et al., 1989:97 ), but one specimen (in the American Museum of Natural History, 151342) comes from 18 km N of Lake Habbema in Irian Jaya.