Combinations

• Stenomys verucundus försteri Rümmler, 1935: 117 [original combination]
• Rattus verecundus forsteri: Ellerman, 1941: 205 [name combination]
• Rattus verecundus foersteri: Laurie & Hill, 1954: 114 [name combination, spelling correction]
• Rattus foersteri: Helgen, 2007 [name combination, elevate to species]

Synonyms

• Rattus mordax hageni Troughton, 1937: 120

Holotype: AM M6102, adult ♂, skin and skull.

Type locality: “altitude of 5-6,000 ft., in the upper Wahgi River valley on the southern slopes of Mt. Hagen, in the south-east corner of the Sepik Division, Territory of New Guinea.”

• Rattus rosalinda Hinton, 1943: 557

Holotype: BMNH, adult ♀, skin and skull.

Type locality: “Tapu, Upper Ramu River Plateau, North-East New Guinea.”

Primary references

• Rümmler, H. 1935. Neue Muriden aus Neuguinea. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 10: 105–118. BHL Reference page. 
• Troughton, E.G. 1937. Descriptions of some New Guinea mammals. Records of the Australian Museum 20: 117–127.
• Ellerman, J.R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Volume 2. British Museum: London. xii + 690 pp.

• Hinton, M.A.C. 1943. Preliminary diagnoses of five new murine rodents from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 11, 10(68): 552–557. DOI: 10.1080/03745481.1943.9728040 Reference page. 

• Laurie, E.M.O. & Hill, J.E. 1954. List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands 1758–1952. British Museum: London. 175 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Helgen, K.M. 2007. A taxonomic and geographic overview of the mammal fauna of Papua. pp. 689–749 in Marshall, A.J. & Beehler, B.M. (eds.). The ecology of Papua. Ecology of Indonesia. Part One. Periplus Editions: Singapore. 784 pp. ISBN 9781462906796 Reference page.