Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2
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1531
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Pseudomys hermannsburgensis
Waite 1896
Pseudomys hermannsburgensis
Waite 1896
,
Rept. Horn Sci. Exped.
Cent
.
Aust
., Zool., Vol. 2: 405
.
Type Locality:
Australia
,
Northern Territory
, George Gill Range (as restricted by
lectotype
designation; see
Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:176
).
Vernacular Names:
Sandy Inland Pseudomys
.
Synonyms:
Pseudomys brazenori
Troughton 1937
.
Distribution:
Australia
; arid parts of
Western Australia
,
South Australia
,
Northern Territory
, W
Queensland
, W
New South Wales
, and NW
Victoria
(
Breed, 1995
c
:604
; Robinson et al., 2000;
Watts and Aslin, 1981:190
; see also the range retraction by
Ellis, 1995
b
).
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion:
Electrophoretic data (
Baverstock et al., 1981
) and spermatozoal morphology (Breed, 1983) clustered
P. hermannsburgensis
with most other species in
Pseudomys
, but phallic morphology interpreted by
Lidicker and Brylski (1987)
indicated closer affinity to species they placed in
Leggadina
. Digestive tract traits in relation to diet documented by
Murray et al. (1994)
. Reviewed by
Breed (1995
c
)
.