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 Rattus tunneyi Thomas 1904 Rattus tunneyi Thomas 1904 , Novit. Zool., 11: 223 . Type Locality: Australia , Northern Territory , Mary River. Vernacular Names: Australian Pale Field Rat . Synonyms: Rattus apex Troughton 1939 ; Rattus austrinus Thomas 1921 ; Rattus culmorum (Thomas and Dollman 1909 ) ; Rattus dispar Brazenor 1936 ; Rattus melvilleus Thomas 1921 ; Rattus vallesius Thomas 1921 ; Rattus woodwardi (Thomas 1908) . Distribution: Australia ; NE and SW Western Australia , Northern Territory , E Queensland , and NE New South Wales . Also occurs on offshore islands. Recorded historically ( holotype of austrinus probably from Kangaroo Isl; see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:188 ), but otherwise only by subfossils (Robinson et al., 2000) from South Australia . Extant range vastly reduced from former distribution (see Taylor and Horner, 1973:89 ; Watts and Aslin, 1981 ; Braithwaite and Baverstock, 1995:663 ). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). Discussion: Rattus fuscipes species group. This species hybridized in the laboratory with R. colletti ( Baverstock et al., 1983 a , 1986). Revised by Taylor and Horner (1973) and reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981) , Mahoney and Richardson (1988) , and Braithwaite and Baverstock (1995) .