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 Lorentzimys Jentink, 1911 . Nova Guinea , 9:166 . TYPE SPECIES: Lorentzimys nouhuysi Jentink, 1911 . COMMENTS: Member of the New Guinea Old Endemics ( Musser, 1981c ). Photograph, distributional and biological information summarized by Flannery (1990b:197) . Phallic morphology described by Lidicker (1968). Analyses of phallic traits ( Lidicker and Brylski, 1987 ) indicated Lorentzimys and Leptomys are related, a hypothesis also supported by dental features and shared derived cephalic arterial pattern.