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 gouldii
(Waterhouse, 1839)
.
Zool. Voy. H.M.S. "Beagle," Mammalia, 2:67
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Australia
,
New South Wales
, north of Hunter River (see
Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:175
)
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Australia
; range based on Recent and subfossil specimens includes W
Western Australia
and Murray-Darling basin in E
South Australia
,
New South Wales
, and N
Victoria
.
STATUS:
U.S.
ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Extinct.
SYNONYMS:
rawlinnae.
COMMENTS: For full citation and other information see
Mahoney and Richardson (1988:175)
. Apparently extinct (
Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:175
); no live animals seen or collected since the middle 1850's (
Watts and Aslin, 1981:169
). Phallic morphology indicated
gouldii
is clustered with
P. australis
,
P. higginsi
,
and
P. nanus
(
Lidicker and Brylski, 1987
)
.