Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Order Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 - rodents
     Suborder Sciurognathi (Tullberg, 1899) see Suborder Sciuromorpha Brandt, 1855
       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 bougainville Troughton, 1936
             03 Melomys burtoni (Ramsay, 1887) - grassland melomys
             04 Melomys capensis Tate, 1951 - Cape York melomys
             05 Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) - fawn-footed melomys
             06 Melomys fellowsi Hinton, 1943 - red-bellied melomys
             07 Melomys fraterculus (Thomas, 1920) - Mansuela melomys
             08 Melomys gracilis (Thomas, 1906)
             09 Melomys lanosus Thomas, 1922
             10 Melomys leucogaster (Jentink, 1908) - white-bellied melomys
             11 Melomys levipes (Thomas, 1897) - long-nosed melomys
             12 Melomys lorentzii (Jentink, 1908) - long-footed melomys
             13 Melomys mollis (Thomas, 1913)
             14 Melomys moncktoni (Thomas, 1904)
             15 Melomys obiensis (Thomas, 1911)
             16 Melomys platyops (Thomas, 1906) - lowland melomys
             17 Melomys rattoides Thomas, 1922
             18 Melomys rubex Thomas, 1922 - highland melomys
             19 Melomys rubicola Thomas, 1924 - Bramble Cay melomys
             20 Melomys rufescens (Alston, 1877) - rufescent melomys
             21 ‡Melomys spechti Flannery & Wickler, 1990