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 Srilankamys Musser, 1981 . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 168:268 . TYPE SPECIES: Rattus ohiensis Phillips, 1929 . COMMENTS: A montane insular relict with possible phylogenetic ties to Chiromyscus , Maxomys , and Niviventer , but not to Rattus ( Musser, 1981b ) .