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 Coccymys albidens (Tate, 1951) . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 97:286 . TYPE LOCALITY: New Guinea , Irian Jaya, 15 mi N Mt Wilhelmina, Lake Habbema, 3225 m . DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea , Irian Jaya; known only from the type locality and 9 km NE Lake Habbema, 2800 m . STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known. COMMENTS: Still represented only by the six specimens in the type series collected in 1938. Originally described as a species of Melomys ( Tate, 1951 ) , but its diagnostic traits are unlike those defining species within that genus, and similar to those characterizing ruemmleri . This conclusion reached independently by Flannery (1990b) and Menzies (1990) , although neither of them formally allocated albidens and ruemmleri to the same genus.