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 Xenuromys barbatus (Milne-Edwards, 1900) . Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 6:167 . TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea , "British New Guinea ." DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea ; Represented by only a few specimens collected along the Central Cordillera from Mt Dayman in E Papua New Guinea to the Idenberg River in Irian Jaya ( Flannery, 1990b ; Flannery et al., 1985 ). STATUS: IUCN - Rare. SYNONYMS: guba. COMMENTS: Closest phylogenetic relatives appear to be species of Uromys ( Tate, 1951 ) .