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
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
)
.