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 1189 1531 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Leggadina forresti (Thomas 1906) [Mus] forresti Thomas 1906 , Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1906 (32): 6 . Type Locality: Australia , Northern Territory , Alexandria (for additional information, see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:158 ). Vernacular Names: Forrest's Leggadina . Synonyms: Leggadina berneyi ( Troughton 1936 ) ; Leggadina messorius (Thomas 1925) ; Leggadina waitei (Troughton 1932) . Distribution: Inland Australia ; W half of Queensland , NW New South Wales , N South Australia , S Northern Territory , and localities in far eastern part of Western Australia ( Banks and Rushton, 1998 ; Reid and Morton, 1995 ; Robinson et al., 2000; Watts and Aslin, 1981 ). Populations in Pilbara region, including Thevenard Isl, once considered to be L. forresti , are now referred to L. lakedownensis ( Cooper et al., 2003 a ; Moro et al., 1998 ). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). Discussion: Reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981) , Reid and Morton (1995) , and Cooper et al. (2003 a ) .