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 Paruromys Ellerman, 1954 . In Laurie and Hill, List of land mammals of New Guinea , Celebes and adjacent islands, p. 117 . [1954] TYPE SPECIES: Rattus dominator Thomas, 1921 . COMMENTS: Described by Ellerman as a subgenus of Rattus , but now recognized as distinct genus ( Musser and Newcomb, 1983 ).