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 Xeromys Thomas, 1889 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889:248 . TYPE SPECIES: Xeromys myoides Thomas, 1889 . COMMENTS: Member of the Australian Old Endemics ( Musser, 1981c: 166 ) or Hydromyini of Baverstock (1984) , and Lee et al. (1981) . Xeromys is phylogenetically distantly related to Hydromys , although the two are still sister genera ( Watts et al., 1992 ).