Melomys is a genus of rodents in the family Muridae. Members of this genus live in the wet habitats of northern Australia (Far North Queensland), New Guinea, Torres Strait Islands and islands of the Indonesian archipelago.[2][3]
^Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
^Breed, Bill; Ford, Fred (2007). Native Mice and Rats. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-0-643-09166-5.
^"A new species of Melomys (Rodentia, Muridae) From Yamdena Island, Tanimbar Group, Eastern Indonesia". Western Australian Museum. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
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-P. (June 2016), Confirmation of the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomysMelomys rubicola on Bramble Cay, Torres Strait: results and conclusions from...
(2016). "Endogenous Gibbon Ape Leukemia Virus Identified in a Rodent (Melomys burtoni subsp.) from Wallacea (Indonesia)". Journal of Virology. 90 (18):...
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