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
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Pseudomys chapmani
Kitchener, 1980
.
Rec. West.
Aust
. Mus., 8:405
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Australia
,
Western Australia
, Pilbara Dist., East Hammersley Range, West Angelas Mine Site (
Kitchener, 1980
provided additional information)
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Australia
, NW
Western Australia
; extant specimens known only from Pilbara Dist. (see map in Kitchener, 1985:216), but distribution of pebble mounds indicated range once extended through Gascoyne to Murchison Dist. with southern limit near Mileura, northern limit the Great Sandy Desert, and eastern limit the Gibson Desert (see discussion and map in
Dunlop and Pound, 1981
).
COMMENTS: This species builds pebble mounds and is sympatric with P.
hermannsburgensis
(
Kitchener, 1980
)
, which does not construct pebble mounds (
Dunlop and Pound, 1981
), but phylogenetically most closely allied to P.
johnsoni
,
another species that constructs pebble mounds (Kitchener, 1985).