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)
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755
book chapter
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Pseudomys hermannsburgensis
(Waite, 1896)
.
Rept. Horn Sci. Exped.
Cent
.
Aust
., Zool., 2:405
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Australia
,
Northern Territory
, George Gill Range (see
Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:176
)
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Australia
; arid parts of
Western Australia
,
South Australia
,
Northern Territory
, W
Queensland
, W
New South Wales
, and NW
Victoria
(see map in
Watts and Aslin, 1981:190
).
SYNONYMS:
brazenori.
COMMENTS: Electrophoretic data (
Baverstock et al., 1981
) and spermatozoal morphology (Breed, 1983) indicated
P. hermannsburgensis
is clustered with most other species in
Pseudomys
,
but phallic morphology interpreted by
Lidicker and Brylski (1987)
as indicating closer affinity to species they place in
Leggadina.