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 oralis Thomas 1921 Pseudomys oralis Thomas 1921 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 8: 621 . Type Locality: Australia ; exact place unknown, but likely located in NE New South Wales or SE Queensland ( Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:179 ). Vernacular Names: Hastings River Pseudomys . Distribution: Australia ; extant specimens from NE New South Wales and SE Queensland , but late Pleistocene fossils are from farther south in New South Wales and E Victoria (Gynther and O’Reilly, 1995; Meek and Triggs, 1999 ; Poole, 1994 ; Read, 1993 ; Watts and Aslin, 1981:170 ). Conservation: IUCN – Endangered. Discussion: Originally described as a subspecies of P. australis . Once considered to be the least known and rarest of Pseudomys ( Watts and Aslin, 1981 ) , but is less rare than thought although extremely local in distribution ( Kirkpatrick, 1995 ). Body size and geographic distribution documented by Read (1993) .