Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 1189 1531 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Coccymys Menzies 1990 Coccymys Menzies 1990 , Science in New Guinea , Vol. 16: 132 . Type Species: Pogonomelomys ruemmleri Tate and Archbold 1941 Species and subspecies: 2 species: Species Coccymys albidens ( Tate 1951 ) Species Coccymys ruemmleri ( Tate and Archbold 1941 ) Discussion: Pogonomys Division. A New Guinea Old Endemic. Analysis of immunological distances by Watts and Baverstock (1994 a ) for New Guinea murines indicated Coccymys (represented by C. ruemmleri ) showed no clear affinities with any other genus but appeared to be a distinctive member of their " Anisomys " clade (our Pogonomys Division). Sperm morphology of C. ruemmleri described by Breed and Aplin (1994) and its significance as a guide to relationships of Coccymys within endemic New Guinea murines outlined by Breed (1997) . Our allocation to the Pogonomys Division is provisional pending phylogenetic analyses incorporating a wide array of morphological data sets combined with a range of different gene sequences.