Order Rodentia (Part 5) Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 504 560 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353037 0-89327-235-3 7353037 Leptomys elegans Thomas, 1897 . Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, 18:610 . TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea , (=”British New Guinea ”), Central Prov., Astrolabe Range . DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea . COMMENT: See Tate, 1951 , Bull. Am. Mus . Nat. Hist., 97:223, for discussion of type locality. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011077001001.