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 Pogonomelomys sevia (Tate and Archbold, 1935) . Am. Mus. Novit., 803:3 . TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea , Morobe Prov. , Huon Peninsula, Cromwell Range, Sevia, 1400 m . DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea ; Central Cordillera of Papua New Guinea from Star Mtns in the west to the Wau region of Morobe Prov. in the east, including mountains of Huon Peninsula ( Flannery, 1990b ; Menzies, 1990 ). SYNONYMS: tatei . COMMENTS: Originally described as a species of Melomys by Tate and Archbold (1935) and subsequently transferred to Pogonomelomys by Rümmler (1938) where it remained ( Laurie and Hill, 1954 ; Tate, 1951 ) until Menzies (1990) made sevia the type species of Abeomelomys . The species has always been considered distinctive compared to mayeri and bruijnii ( Flannery, 1990b ; Tate, 1951 ), but the traits used by Menzies to diagnose Abeomelomys do not distinguish that genus from Pogonomelomys.