Genus Melomys Thomas, 1922
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- ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study.
- Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S. & Hogarth, J.T. 1977. Chromosome evolution in Australian rodents I. The Pseudomyinae, the Hydromyinae and the Uromys/Melomys Group. Chromosoma (Berlin) 61: 95-125
- Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S., Adams, M. & Cole, S.R. 1981. Genetical relationships among Australian rodents (Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 289-303
- Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S., Adams, M. & Gelder, M. 1980. Chromosomal and electrophoretic studies of Australian Melomys (Rodentia: Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 28: 553-574
- Begg, R., Walsh, B., Woerle, F. & King, S. 1983. Ecology of Melomys burtoni, the grassland melomys (Rodentia: Muridae) at Cobourg Peninsula, N.T. Australian Wildlife Research 10: 259-267
- Braithwaite, R.W. 1989. Shelter selection by a small mammal community in the wet-dry tropics of Australia. Australian Mammalogy 12: 55-59
- Breed, W.J. & Sarafis, V. 1979. On the phylogenetic significance of spermatozoal morphology and male reproductive tract anatomy in Australian rodents. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 103: 127-135
- Corbet, G.B. & Hill, J.E. 1980. A World List of Mammalian Species. London : British Museum viii 226 pp.
- De Vis, C.W. 1907. An eccentric rat. Annals of the Queensland Museum 7: 8-9
- Dennis, A.J. & Storch, D. 1998. Conservation and Taxonomic Status of the Bramble Cay Melomys, Melomys rubicola. Progress Report for Endangered Species Program. Canberra. Environment Australia.
- Finlayson, H.H. 1943. A new Melomys from Queensland with notice of two other Queensland rats. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 66: 243-247 pls 8-9
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- Gould, J. 1852. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 4. [the date 1849 printed on the title page of Sturt, op. cit. is not the publication date of that work, see Mahoney, J.A. 1975. The identity and status of Thomas' 'lectotype' of Leporillus apicalis (Gould, 1853) [Rodentia: Muridae]. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 99: 101–104 [104]]
- Heinsohn, G. & Heinsohn, R. 1999. Long-term dynamics of a rodent community in an Australian tropical rainforest. Wildlife Research 26: 187-198
- Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. & Koeppl, J.W. (eds) 1982. Mammal Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Lawrence, Kansas : Allen Press & Assoc. Syst. Coll. ix 694 pp.
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- Kellogg, R. 1945. A new Australian naked-tailed rat (Melomys). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 58: 69-71
- Kemper, C.M., Kitchener, D.J., Humphreys, W.F., How, R.A., Bradley, A.J. & Schmitt, L.H. 1987. The demography and physiology of Melomys spp. (Rodentia: Muridae) in the Mitchell Plateau area, Kimberley, Western Australia. Journal of Zoology (London) 212: 553-562
- Kerle, J.A. 1995. Grassland Melomys Melomys burtoni. pp. 632-634 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
- Knox, E. 1978. A note on the identification of Melomys species (Rodentia: Muridae) in Australia. Journal of Zoology, London 185: 276-277
- Laurance, S.G.W. & Laurance, W.F. 1995. A ground-trapping survey for small mammals in continuous forest and two isolated tropical rainforest reserves. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38: 597-602
- Laurence, W.F. 1994. Rainforest fragmentation and the structure of small mammal communities in tropical Queensland. Biological Conservation 69: 23-32
- Lee, A.K. 1995. The Action Plan for Australian Rodents. Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency 62 pp.
- Leung, L.K-P. 1995. Cape York Melomys Melomys capensis. pp. 634-635 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
- Leung, L.K-P. 1999. Ecology of Australian tropical rainforest mammals. II. The Cape York melomys, Melomys capensis (Muridae: Rodentia). Wildlife Research 26: 307-316
- Leung, L.K.-P., Dickman, C.R. & Moore, L.A. 1993. Genetic variation in fragmented populations of an Australian rainforest rodent Melomys cervinipes. Pacific Conservation Biology 1: 58-65
- Limpus, C.J., Parmenter, C.J. & Watts, C.H.S. 1983. Melomys rubicola, an endangered murid rodent endemic to the Great Barrier Reef of Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 6: 77-79
- Lönnberg, E. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. II. Mammals from Queensland. 1. List of mammals. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(2): 3-11 [18 Jan. 1916]
- Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988]
- Menzies, J.I. & Dennis, E. 1979. Handbook of New Guinea Rodents. Handbook No. 6. Wau : Wau Ecology Institute vi 68 pp. 8 pls.
- Morrissey, B.L. & Breed, W.G. 1982. Variation in external morphology of the glans penis of Australian native rodents. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 495-502
- Ramsay, E.P. 1887. Description of three new species of mammals from north west Australia. Abstr. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. for August 31st, 1887: vi.
- Ramsay, E.P. 1887. Description of two new species of marsupials (Perameles and Antechinus) and of a new species of Mus (M. burtoni), from the neighbourhood of Derby, N.W.A. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2: 551-553 pl. 17
- Reddell, P., Spain, A.V. & Hopkins, M. 1997. Dispersal of spores of mycorrhizal fungi in scats of native mammals in tropical forests of northeastern Australia. Biotropica 29: 184-192
- Redhead, T.D. 1995. Fawn-footed Melomys Melomys cervinipes. pp. 636-637 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
- Ride, W.D.L. 1970. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford University Press xiv 249 pp. 62 pls.
- Robertson, L.N., Story, P.G., Wilson, J. & Egan, B.T. 1995. Integrated pest management for rodents in sugarcane. Proceedings of the 1995 Conference of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists held at Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 2nd May to 5th May 1995. 70-74 pp.
- Smith, G.C. 1985. Biology and habitat usage of sympatric populations of the fawn-footed melomys (Melomys cervinipes) and the grassland melomys (Melomys burtoni) (Rodentia: Muridae). The Australian Zoologist 21: 551-563
- Tate, G.H.H. 1951. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 65 The rodents of Australia and New Guinea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 97: 183-430
- Taylor, J.M. & Horner, B.E. 1970. Reproduction in the mosaic-tailed rat, Melomys cervinipes (Rodentia: Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 18: 171-184
- Thomas, O. 1913. Some new species of Uromys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 12: 212-217
- Thomas, O. 1922. A subdivision of the genus Uromys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 9: 260-261
- Thomas, O. 1924. Some new Australasian Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 13: 296-299
- Troughton, E. le G. 1935. Five new rats of the genera Hydromys and Melomys from northern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 251-258
- Troughton, E. le G. & Le Souef, A.S. 1929. New forms of mosaic-tailed rats (Melomys and Uromys) from Hinchinbrook Island, Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 6: 96-99
- Watts, C.H.S. 1982. Australian hydromyine rodents: maintenance of captive colonies. pp. 180-184 in Evans, D.D. (ed.). The Management of Australian Mammals in Captivity. Proceedings of the Scientific Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society, Healesville, Victoria, February 1979. Melbourne : Zoological Board of Victoria 194 pp.
- Watts, C.H.S. 1995. Bramble Cay Melomys Melomys rubicola. pp. 637-638 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
- Watts, C.H.S. & Aslin, H.J. 1981. The Rodents of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xii 321 pp. 16 pls.
- Wood, D.H. 1971. The ecology of Rattus fuscipes and Melomys cervinipes (Rodentia: Muridae) in a south-east Queensland rain forest. Australian Journal of Zoology 19: 371-392
- Woodall, P.F. 1989. Habitat of Melomys cervinipes (Rodentia: Muridae) on Carlisle Island, central Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 12: 31-34
- Ziegler, A.C. 1982. An ecological check-list of New Guinea Recent mammals. pp. 863-894 in Gressitt, J.L. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea. The Hague & London : W. Junk Vol. 2(4) vii 983 pp.
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