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
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Pseudomys australis
Gray, 1832
.
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832:39
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Australia
,
New South Wales
,
SW
side of Liverpool Plains
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Australia
;
New South Wales
, S
Queensland
,
South Australia
, and S
Northern Territory
; Late Pleistocene to Recent remains from W
Victoria
(
Watts and Aslin, 1981
); probably extinct in
New South Wales
(
Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:172
).
SYNONYMS:
auritus
,
flavescens
,
lineolatus
,
minnie
,
murinus
,
stirtoni
.
COMMENTS: Microscopic structure of hooks on sperm head reported by
Flaherty and Breed (1982)
. Phallic information suggested
P.
australis
is related to
P.
gouldii
,
P. higginsi
,
and
P.
nanus
,
to the exclusion of other species of
Pseudomys
(
Lidicker and Brylski, 1987:635
)
; electrophoretic data (
Baverstock et al., 1981
) and spermatozoal morphology (Breed, 1983) are not discordant with this association.