Coccymys kirrhos

Coccymys kirrhos
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Coccymys
Species:	C. kirrhos
Binomial name
*Coccymys kirrhos* Musser & Lunde, 2009

Coccymys kirrhos is a rodent in the family Muridae that is native to New Guinea. The species was described in 2009.^[1]

References

↑ Guy G. Musser & Darrin P. Lunde (2009). "Systematic reviews of New Guinea Coccymys and "Melomys" albidens (Muridae, Murinae) with descriptions of new taxa". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 329: 1–139. doi:10.1206/635.1. hdl:2246/6033.

Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Pogonomys–Pseudomys)

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordate
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae

Pogonomys
Division

Abeomelomys	Highland brush mouse (A. sevia)

Anisomys	Squirrel-toothed rat (A. imitator)

Chiruromys	Greater tree mouse (C. forbesi) Lamia (C. lamia) Lesser tree mouse (C. vates)

Coccymys	White-toothed brush mouse (C. albidens) C. kirrhos Rümmler's brush mouse (C. ruemmleri) C. shawmayeri

Hyomys (White-eared rats)	Western white-eared giant rat (H. dammermani) Eastern white-eared giant rat (H. goliath)

Macruromys (New Guinean rats)	Lesser small-toothed rat (M. elegans) Eastern small-toothed rat (M. major)

Mallomys (Giant tree rats)	De Vis's woolly rat (M. aroaensis) Alpine woolly rat (M. gunung) Subalpine woolly rat (M. istapantap) Rothschild's woolly rat (M. rothschildi) Bosavi woolly rat (M. sp. nov.) Arfak woolly rat (M. sp. nov.) Foja woolly rat (M. sp. nov.)

Mammelomys	Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat (M. lanosus) Large mosaic-tailed rat (M. rattoides)

Pogonomelomys (Rummler's mosaic tailed rats)	Lowland brush mouse (P. bruijni) Shaw Mayer's brush mouse (P. mayeri)

Pogonomys (Prehensile-tailed rats)	Champion's tree mouse (P. championi) D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago pogonomys (P. fergussoniensis) Large tree mouse (P. loriae) Chestnut tree mouse (P. macrourus) Prehensile-tailed rat (P. mollipilosus) Gray-bellied tree mouse (P. sylvestris)

Xenuromys	Mimic tree rat (X. barbatus)

Pseudomys
Division

Conilurus	Brush-tailed rabbit rat (C. penicillatus)

Leggadina	Forrest's mouse (L. forresti) Lakeland Downs mouse (L. lakedownensis)

Leporillus (Australian stick-nest rats)	Lesser stick-nest rat (L. apicalis) Greater stick-nest rat (L. conditor)

Mastacomys	Broad-toothed mouse (M. fuscus)

Mesembriomys (Tree rats)	Black-footed tree-rat (M. gouldii) Golden-backed tree-rat (M. macrurus)

Notomys (Australian hopping mice)	Spinifex hopping mouse (N. alexis) Northern hopping mouse (N. aquilo) Fawn hopping mouse (N. cervinus) Dusky hopping mouse (N. fuscus) Mitchell's hopping mouse (N. mitchellii)

Pseudomys (Australian native mice)	Ash-grey mouse (P. albocinereus) Silky mouse (P. apodemoides) Plains rat (P. australis) Bolam's mouse (P. bolami) Kakadu pebble-mound mouse (P. calabyi) Western pebble-mound mouse (P. chapmani) Little native mouse (P. delicatulus) Desert mouse (P. desertor) Shark Bay mouse (P. fieldi) Smoky mouse (P. fumeus) Eastern chestnut mouse (P. gracilicaudatus) Sandy inland mouse (P. hermannsburgensis) Long-tailed mouse (P. higginsi) Central pebble-mound mouse (P. johnsoni) Western chestnut mouse (P. nanus) New Holland mouse (P. novaehollandiae) Western mouse (P. occidentalis) Hastings River mouse (P. oralis) Country mouse (P. patrius) Pilliga mouse (P. pilligaensis) Heath mouse (P. shortridgei)

Zyzomys (Thick-tailed rats)	Common rock rat (Z. argurus) Arnhem Land rock rat (Z. maini) Carpentarian rock rat (Z. palatilis) Central rock rat (Z. pedunculatus) Kimberley rock rat (Z. woodwardi)

See also: Aethomys–Chrotomys; Colomys–Golunda; Hadromys–Maxomys; Melasmothrix–Mus; Oenomys–Pithecheir; Rattus; Stenocephalomys–Xeromys; Otomys; Others

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