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
Pseudomys chapmani
Kitchener 1980
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).
Vernacular Names:
Western Pebble-mound Mouse
.
Distribution:
Australia
, NW
Western Australia
; extant specimens known only from Pilbara Dist. (Kitchener, 1985:216), but distribution of pebble mounds indicates range once extended through Gascoyne to Murchison Dist. with S limit near Mileura, N limit the Great Sandy Desert, and E limit the Gibson Desert (
Dunlop and Pound, 1981
;
Start and Kitchener, 1995
).
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion:
This species builds pebble mounds and is sympatric with
P. hermannsburgensis
(
Kitchener, 1980
)
, which does not construct such mounds (
Dunlop and Pound, 1981
), but phylogenetically most closely allied to
P. johnsoni
, another species that constructs pebble mounds (Kitchener, 1985). The use of pebble mounds as indicators of the presence of
P. chapmani
is documented by
Anstee (1996)
. Reviewed by
Start and Kitchener (1995)
.