Order Rodentia - Family Muridae Author Guy G. Musser Author Michael D. Carleton text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 501 755 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353098 1-56098-217-9 7353098 Notomys aquilo Thomas, 1921 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 8:540 . TYPE LOCALITY: Australia , Queensland , Cape York . DISTRIBUTION: Australia ; N Queensland and N Northern Territory (Groot Eylandt and N Arnhem Land); see map in Watts and Aslin (1981:113) . STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Insufficiently known. SYNONYMS: carpentarius . COMMENTS: Apparently found only in coastal sand ridges around Gulf of Carpentaria.