Tawny brush mouse

The tawny brush mouse (Coccymys kirrhos) is a small rodent in the family Muridae that is known only from the island of New Guinea. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it as a living species of the subfamily Murinae and the tribe Hydromyini, placed in the genus Coccymys, and records its distribution as Papua New Guinea within the Australasian biogeographic realm. It was described in 2009 by Musser and D. P. Lunde in a systematic review of the New Guinea Coccymys published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. The holotype was collected at Top Camp, at 2230 metres on the north slopes of Mount Dayman in the Maneau Range of Milne Bay Province. The database also records the alternative name tawny Coccymys and notes that the species was recently described. Its IUCN Red List status has not been evaluated.