The New Guinea waterside rat (''Parahydromys asper'') is the only member of the genus ''Parahydromys''. It is considered part of the
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...
Old Endemics, meaning its ancestors were part of the first wave of
murine rodent
The Old World rats and mice, part of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, comprise at least 519 species. Members of this subfamily are called murines. In terms of species richness, this subfamily is larger than all mammal families exc ...
s to colonize the island. It is commonly called the "Guinea rat".
Names
It is known as godmg or nyabap in the
Kalam language
Kalam is a Kalam language of Papua New Guinea. It is closely related to Kobon, and shares many of the features of that language. Kalam is spoken in Middle Ramu District of Madang Province and in Mount Hagen District of Western Highlands Provi ...
of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
.
[Pawley, Andrew and Ralph Bulmer. 2011. ''A Dictionary of Kalam with Ethnographic Notes''. Canberra. Pacific Linguistics.]
References
Old World rats and mice
Rodents of Papua New Guinea
Mammals of Western New Guinea
Mammals described in 1906
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Rodents of New Guinea
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