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 Anisomys Thomas, 1904 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1903(2):199 [1904]. TYPE SPECIES: Anisomys imitator Thomas, 1904 . COMMENTS: Lidicker (1968) documented phallic morphology of Anisomys and other New Guinea endemic murines, and concluded that the phallic morphology of Anisomys retained a high proportion of ancestral states. Used as the type genus of Tribe Anisomyini by Lidicker and Brylski (1987) . Member of the New Guinea Old Endemics ( Musser, 1981c ).