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<emphasis bold="true" box="[217,389,1419,1446]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">Mus subrufus</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[197,484,1465,1487]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">The Sydney Morning Herald,</emphasis>
XLVI (7608): 2, col. 5. (
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)
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[166,340,1535,1560]" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">Common name</emphasis>
. Desert Mouse.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[166,335,1581,1605]" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">Current name</emphasis>
. 
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<emphasis box="[353,577,1581,1605]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">Pseudomys desertor</emphasis>
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; following Jackson &amp; Groves (2015).
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? 
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:?PA.58
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, sex and age not determined, two cranial fragments and damaged right dentary, original entry in Palmer Register is “ 
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, skin in bottle head removed”, entered in Palmer Register c. 1877. Another specimen registered by Palmer is also a possible 
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: 
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, specimen not sighted in 2015 and no record of it being sighted during the past few decades. The original P Register entry is “ 
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”, no locality or other data, “headless skin in bottle”. The skull fragments currently labelled?PA.58 had a note in the skull box stating that the fragments were found in a box with two labels in 1970. Both labels were written in old ink by the same hand, one states “ 
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” written on cardboard, while the other states “ 
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” written on a label with a blue lined margin. We have not determined who wrote the labels, but the writing is not inconsistent with that of Krefft. It is not clear why the skull fragments were assigned to PA.58. It appears that the fragments could either be PA.53, PA.58 or another specimen not registered by Palmer.
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.?PA.58, incomplete cranium, consisting of two fragments: an incomplete rostrum with both incisors, and a right maxillary fragment with intact molar row. Right dentary only, missing distal section of ascending ramus, missing incisor.
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. Between Gol Gol Creek, 
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, and Darling River, NSW, 
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(Mahoney &amp; Richardson, 1988).
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. Mahoney &amp; Richardson (1988) discuss this name and state that 
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<emphasis box="[1053,1145,610,634]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">subrufus</emphasis>
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and 
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, (which Krefft proposed as a subspecies of 
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<emphasis box="[839,931,669,693]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">subrufus</emphasis>
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) are both unused senior synonyms of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">Pseudomys desertor</emphasis>
Troughton
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and should not be used, i.e. are 
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. 
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<collectingRegion box="[917,1024,727,751]" country="United Kingdom" name="Wakefield" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">Wakefield</collectingRegion>
(1966)
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cites 
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in MV that were from several dozen specimens listed as 
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<emphasis box="[1322,1467,757,781]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">Mus subrufus</emphasis>
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by Krefft, presumably his original series. PA.53 and 58 are possible 
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of 
<taxonomicName authority="Krefft. Alternatively" authorityName="Krefft. Alternatively" authorityYear="1862" box="[1055,1368,815,839]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="90" pageNumber="367" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="subrufus">
<emphasis box="[1055,1147,815,839]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">subrufus</emphasis>
Krefft. Alternatively
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, the skull fragments could have been from a specimen sent to Krefft after publication of his account. Krefft received mammal specimens from a Mr and Mrs Hay from the “Lower Murray”, which are listed in AM annual reports from the second half of the 1860s.
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In his newspaper article published 24 October, 
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proposed the name 
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<emphasis box="[1137,1426,1021,1045]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">Mus subrufus murrayensis</emphasis>
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for what he referred to as an undescribed species. He had read a paper in the previous month (10 September) in which he proposed the name 
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<emphasis box="[1043,1186,1109,1133]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">Mus subrufus</emphasis>
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but this was not published until 1865 as a separate (
<bibRefCitation author="Krefft, G" box="[1097,1245,1138,1162]" pageId="90" pageNumber="367" pagination="1 - 33" refId="ref135298" refString="Krefft, G. 1865 d. On the vertebrata of the Lower Murray and Darling; their habits, economy, and geographical distribution. In Two papers on the vertebrata of the Lower Murray and Darling, and the snakes of Sydney, read before the Philosophical Society of New South Wales, 10 th September, 1862, pp. 1 - 33. Sydney: Reading &amp; Wellbank." type="book chapter" year="1865">Krefft, 1865d</bibRefCitation>
), and the same paper appeared subsequently in 
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(
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).
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Rodents originally registered in the Palmer Register as PA.49 to at least PA.54 resulted in inadvertent double registrations, including PA.53, assigned to both 
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<emphasis box="[1325,1465,1285,1309]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">Mus subrufus</emphasis>
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but also to 
<taxonomicName authority="Ramsay" authorityName="Ramsay. It" authorityYear="1877" box="[966,1224,1315,1339]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="90" pageNumber="367" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="musavora">
<emphasis box="[966,1127,1315,1338]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="367">Mus musavora</emphasis>
Ramsay
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, see previous account for the latter.
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