Class [Mammalia] Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Order Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 - rodents
     Family Muridae Batsch, 1788 - rats, mice, hamsters, voles, lemmings, and gerbils
       Subfamily Murinae Batsch, 1788 - Old World mice and rats
         Genus Melomys Thomas, 1922 - mosaic-tailed rats
           01 Melomys aerosus (Thomas, 1920)
           02 Melomys albidens Tate, 1951 - white-toothed melomys see Coccymys albidens (Tate, 1951)
           03 Melomys arcium Thomas, 1913 - Rossel Island melomys
           04 Melomys burtoni (Ramsay, 1887) - grassland melomys
           05 Melomys capensis Tate, 1951 - Cape York melomys
           06 Melomys caurinus Thomas, 1921 - short-tailed Talaud melomys
           07 Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) - fawn-footed melomys
           08 Melomys fellowsi Hinton, 1943 - red-bellied melomys
           09 Melomys fraterculus (Thomas, 1920) - Mansuela melomys
           10 Melomys fulgens Thomas, 1920
           11 Melomys hadrourus Winter, 1984 - Thornton Peak melomys see Uromys hadrourus (Winter, 1983)
           12 Melomys leucogaster (Jentink, 1908) - white-bellied melomys
           13 Melomys levipes (Thomas, 1897) - long-nosed melomys
           14 Melomys lorentzii (Jentink, 1908) - long-footed melomys
           15 Melomys lutillus Thomas, 1913 - little melomys
           16 Melomys monktoni - southern melomys see Melomys moncktoni (Thomas, 1904)
           17 Melomys obiensis (Thomas, 1911)
           18 Melomys platyops (Thomas, 1906) - lowland melomys
           19 Melomys porculus see Uromys porculus Thomas, 1904
           20 Melomys rubex Thomas, 1922 - highland melomys
           21 Melomys rubicola Thomas, 1924 - Bramble Cay melomys
           22 Melomys rufescens (Alston, 1877) - rufescent melomys