“…In addition to Leptomys paulus, eight mam-mal species are known only from the montane forests of the Papuan Peninsula, and three lowland species, the vespertilionid bat Pharotis imogene Thomas, 1914, the bandicoot Peroryctes broadbenti (Ramsay, 1879), and the murine Chiruromys forbesi Thomas, 1888, are endemic to the peninsula. Besides L. paulus, the montane endemics comprise the dasyure Murexia rothschildi Tate, 1938; the bandicoot Microperoryctes papuensis (Laurie, 1952;Aplin and Woolley, 1993); and the murines Chiruromys lamia (Thomas, 1897), Rattus vandeuseni Taylor andCalaby, 1982, Pseudohydromys germani (Helgen, 2005a), and as yet unnamed species of Pseudohydromys (see Helgen, 2007b) and Coccymys (Musser and Lunde, 1908;Musser and Carleton, 2005). Ongoing taxonomic studies continue to clarify the standing of these mountains as a significant zone of mammalian endemism (Flannery, 1995: 36-37;Helgen, 2007b).…”