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<emphasis id="2A618BD772ECBD73EC14DF2587E976A8" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">Conilurus penicillatus</emphasis>
Gould 1842
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<emphasis id="A6DF3A0CAD55A0EF33B11C732DF14C81" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">Conilurus penicillatus</emphasis>
Gould 1842
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="957C1CAE1365FE60A0AA5424A3179559" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1309">Type Locality:</emphasis>
<materialsCitation id="895F0C29CC31698E051A09A529F3B505" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="4867324422" country="Australia" pageNumber="1309" stateProvince="Northern Territory">
<collectingCountry id="E50DB84A52E4A924C732B9E4CA0254AE" name="Australia">Australia</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingRegion id="31494071AF3998063D3978ABB427FE6D" country="Australia" name="Northern Territory">Northern Territory</collectingRegion>
, Port Essington, sea shore; see
<bibRefCitation id="5BE1F8CEE1684CD186243A92E6076668" author="Mahoney, J. A. &amp; B. J. Richardson" refId="ref222168" refString="Mahoney, J. A., and B. J. Richardson. 1988. Muridae. Pp. 154 - 192, in Zoological catalogue of Australia. Mammalia (J. L. Bannister, et. al.). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 5: 1 - 274." year="1988">Mahoney and Richardson (1988:155)</bibRefCitation>
.
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<emphasis id="E1E6EC48712D11535108CCB2B15F6F68" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1309">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
<vernacularName id="112D17D54194331561F643C030FB3D89" language="eng" pageNumber="1309">Brush-tailed Conilurus</vernacularName>
.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="01ABB2B2C1C1712A6A366C034C182B94" pageNumber="1309">
<emphasis id="DFF1A7BA7EF46C9A3E5A5E973E4CA74D" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1309">Synonyms:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F1CA1B3A37E12250147E967DB6B9F729" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">Conilurus hemileucurus</emphasis>
(Gould 1858)
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;
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<emphasis id="141CF60142F235D6404FA301D9389AFE" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">Conilurus melanura</emphasis>
(Gray 1844)
</taxonomicName>
;
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<emphasis id="FDD872C421DAD75BBDD43E28E2E299E9" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">Conilurus melibius</emphasis>
Thomas 1921
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="BDB1D88C670010CFFD1BB8FB111ADF1A" authority="Tate and Archbold 1938" authorityName="Tate and Archbold" authorityYear="1938" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Conilurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="1309" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="randi">
<emphasis id="EB68169FAA6FE4EF2FA040DC849536E1" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">Conilurus randi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="0331BB832E0A78A92E0226C7472D4152" author="Tate, G. H. H. &amp; R. Archbold" refId="ref347907" refString="Tate, G. H. H., and R. Archbold. 1938. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 18. Two new Muridae from the Western Division of Papua. American Museum Novitates, 982: 1 - 2." year="1938">Tate and Archbold 1938</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="9096B0AE9E67144AF4C70D69E1A8E246" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1309">Distribution:</emphasis>
<collectingCountry id="520AF6FC51983F3BE9940708EF4B4DB3" name="Australia">Australia</collectingCountry>
; northern coastal area of
<collectingRegion id="253F43B09695C5CC9B0056D44D777FB9" country="Australia" name="Northern Territory">Northern Territory</collectingRegion>
and adjacent islands (Melville Isl, Bathurst Isl, Groote Eylandt, Sir Edward Pellew Group, and Wellesley Isl, and the extreme NE
<collectingRegion id="24F8FA75E6A088ADF5D48DA9FDA5AC93" country="Australia" name="Western Australia">Western Australia</collectingRegion>
(
<bibRefCitation id="6A82A895CCA62387C50D4C979DBD77FD" author="Kemper, C. M." refId="ref182567" refString="Kemper, C. M. 1995 a. Brush-tailed tree-rat, Conilurus penicillatus. Pp. 553 - 554, in Mammals of Australia (R. Strahan, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 756 pp." year="1995">
Kemper, 1995
<emphasis id="C4294F075BEC488F6A0686DB483087E8" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">a</emphasis>
:553
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="3B6CE01C1B47FF00D4FA309D59D06C17" author="Watts, C. H. S. &amp; H. J. Aslin" refId="ref384328" refString="Watts, C. H. S., and H. J. Aslin. 1981. The rodents of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 321 pp." year="1981">Watts and Aslin, 1981:133</bibRefCitation>
); SC
<collectingCountry id="8BEE81A8201AA501B3B7955D8CE55508" name="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</collectingCountry>
in Morehead region (Flannery, 1995
<emphasis id="3B54B2E77C4A4D83931B9235872D7D36" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">a</emphasis>
;
<bibRefCitation id="C8E293430DC7FF775FF91C116FC676EE" author="Waithman, J." refId="ref380284" refString="Waithman, J. 1979. A report on a collection of mammals from southwest Papua. 1972 - 1973. Australian Zoologist, 20: 313 - 326." year="1979">Waithman, 1979</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="B34F12AB2CB85D5A67B39BF861E1876B" pageNumber="1309" type="conservation">
<paragraph id="7A96F9DCEAFB98E4193E7193A7ED49DA" pageNumber="1309">
<emphasis id="C7DA5509423D4F9B372CD2850C7362A8" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1309">Conservation:</emphasis>
<collectionCode id="B3A3330F7EF3992C3F6BA02303BA85F1">IUCN</collectionCode>
Lower Risk (lc).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="70DEABA04C644D65671439FC201F15E5" pageNumber="1309" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="085EB67F9250F5B8D70D102B0C9DD060" pageNumber="1309">
<emphasis id="7A4CED110F99712F648D51E23E37DCDE" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="1309">Discussion:</emphasis>
<paragraph id="15EA363650AF17B08E9F443B3EA79F78" pageNumber="1309">
Analyses of external morphology of glans penis and spermatozoal structure provided by
<bibRefCitation id="93F5B6A61A9C4BB1FB80CE160208C5E6" author="Breed, W. G." refId="ref40861" refString="Breed, W. G. 1984. Sperm head structure in the Hydromyinae (Rodentia: Muridae): A further evolutionary development of the subacrosomal space in mammals. Gamete Research, 10: 31 - 44." year="1984">Breed (1984)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="B2B370EBC9B14EFB3D92E88C8EA9120D" author="Breed, W. G. &amp; V. Sarafis" refId="ref41612" refString="Breed, W. G., and V. Sarafis. 1978. On the phylogenetic significance of spermatozoal morphology and male reproductive tract anatomy in Australian rodents. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 103: 127 - 135." year="1978">Breed and Sarafis (1978)</bibRefCitation>
, and
<bibRefCitation id="FEEECBEE5C80335EAD6D5B69282915F5" author="Morrissey, B. L. &amp; W. G. Breed" refId="ref247856" refString="Morrissey, B. L., and W. G. Breed. 1982. Variation in external morphology of the glans penis of Australian native rodents. Australian Journal of Zoology, 30: 495 - 502." year="1982">Morrissey and Breed (1982)</bibRefCitation>
.
<bibRefCitation id="1B01D23908BB7E8FD4D4A8E726D52E21" author="Kemper, C. M. &amp; L. H. Schmitt" refId="ref182664" refString="Kemper, C. M., and L. H. Schmitt. 1992. Morphological variation between populations of the brush-tailed tree rat (Conilurus penicillatus) in northern Australia and New Guinea. Australian Journal of Zoology, 40: 437 - 452." year="1992">Kemper and Schmitt (1992)</bibRefCitation>
reported multivariate study of external and cranial morphology among samples from N Australian and SC New
<collectingCountry id="7F9A188677017385A1C2EF02D2E3EC85" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
in the context of assessing geographic variation and zoogeography; populations on Mellville and Bathurst Isls and SC New
<collectingCountry id="83DF38FBE8A009161CA4DD988C34F03F" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
are morphometrically the most distinct compared with mainland Australian populations. Studies of chromosomal features (
<bibRefCitation id="4ADB0DA7493B699DC3671C092E9401A1" author="Baverstock, P. R. &amp; C. H. S. Watts &amp; J. T. Hogarth" refId="ref24478" refString="Baverstock, P. R., C. H. S. Watts, and J. T. Hogarth. 1977 c. Chromosome evolution in Australian rodents. I. The Pseudomyinae, the Hydromyinae and the Uromys / Melomys group. Chromosoma, 61: 95 - 125." year="1977">
Baverstock et al., 1977
<bibRefCitation id="D7F04F65DB02D09751BEF2505B1369BB" author="van Zyll de Jong, C. G." refId="ref367653" refString="van Zyll de Jong, C. G. 1983 b. A morphometric analysis of North American shrews of the arcticus group, with special consideration of the taxonomic status of S. a. maritimensis. Nature Canada (Quebec), 110: 373 - 378." year="1983">
<emphasis id="95A8A551DC8B8EB2AE44F954A2568C56" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">c</emphasis>
, 1983
<emphasis id="1CCA0F315D3EC8559C52427E0F8CD7FF" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">b</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
</bibRefCitation>
), electrophoretic data (
<bibRefCitation id="36D8C4B51688449FB6310898E29E10BD" author="Baverstock, P. R. &amp; C. H. S. Watts &amp; M. Adams &amp; S. R. Cole" refId="ref24697" refString="Baverstock, P. R., C. H. S. Watts, M. Adams, and S. R. Cole. 1981. Genetical relationships among Australian rodents (Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 29: 289 - 303." year="1981">Baverstock et al., 1981</bibRefCitation>
), phallic morphology (
<bibRefCitation id="6DB19F1E779DE02B8988D2748620694B" author="Lidicker, W. Z., Jr. &amp; P. V. Brylski" refId="ref212257" refString="Lidicker, W. Z., Jr., and P. V. Brylski. 1987. The conilurine rodent radiation of Australia, analyzed on the basis of phallic morphology. Journal of Mammalogy, 68: 617 - 641." year="1987">Lidicker and Brylski, 1987</bibRefCitation>
), and dental traits (
<bibRefCitation id="4A9A01F5509DFA692E024290B315B0C3" author="Misonne, X." refId="ref243286" refString="Misonne, X. 1969. African and Indo-Australian Muridae: Evolutionary trends. Annales Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique, Serie IN- 8, Sciences Zoologiques, 172: 1 - 219." year="1969">Misonne, 1969</bibRefCitation>
) supported the hypothesis that
<taxonomicName id="2AE8F23FC3532EC4186348B7C9036A00" authorityName="Gould" authorityYear="1842" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Conilurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="penicillatus">
<emphasis id="53244DB245172D42E01D2B46155A90FB" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">C. penicillatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is phylogenetically closely related to
<taxonomicName id="6AD8186B25812E7563554EAE84809BA4" baseAuthorityName="Gray" baseAuthorityYear="1843" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Mesembriomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="gouldi">
<emphasis id="BF923C51002BC099BEC24044BE376B87" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">Mesembriomys gouldi</emphasis>
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, and microcomplement fixation data placed it in the same clade close to species of
<taxonomicName id="289DF121D15354F1FD3F034734262222" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Leporillus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="41E6D30F1C7AFA5406E8B39E88950980" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">Leporillus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="156D485234F569F1413AE8A0B5F2F1DB" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">Mesembriomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="D1CA7A67D7BBBC00A75DD1DE5266A89C" author="Watts, C. H. S. &amp; P. R. Baverstock &amp; J. Birrell &amp; M. Krieg" refId="ref384680" refString="Watts, C. H. S., P. R. Baverstock, J. Birrell, and M. Krieg. 1992. Phylogeny of the Australian rodents (Muridae): A molecular approach using microcomplement fixation of albumin. Australian Journal of Zoology, 40: 81 - 90." year="1992">Watts et al., 1992</bibRefCitation>
; but see generic comments).
<taxonomicName id="CF20C7E894852184B9B22B57F62F70BF" authorityName="Gould" authorityYear="1842" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Conilurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="penicillatus">
<emphasis id="155ACDAAD62BF04602090EE4AF26BC4E" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">Conilurus penicillatus</emphasis>
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is one of the few Old Endemic Australian murines that also occurs in the Trans-Fly region of SC New
<collectingCountry id="C497EE7FD6B16E0FA531B74B50B496DA" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
from where it is still represented by only
<specimenCount id="6053BF553E62B77A95C967A08A96282F" type="generic">two specimens</specimenCount>
(Flannery, 1995
<emphasis id="14A84EB4055784CA74C03CD992EE2EF7" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">b</emphasis>
a:258), and is one of 17 Australian mammalian species that are found only in that part of the island (
<bibRefCitation id="EB310271F79CE4AA56E2029FDD7593CA" author="Norris, C. A. &amp; G. G. Musser" refId="ref262232" refString="Norris, C. A., and G. G. Musser. 2001. Systematic revision within the Phalanger orientalis complex (Diprotodontia, Phalangeridae): A third species of lowland gray cuscus from New Guinea and Australia. American Museum Novitates, 3356: 1 - 20." year="2001">Norris and Musser, 2001</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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A morphologically distinctive
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<emphasis id="028A52A0B5159815BE9FB614A1F65F69" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">penicillatus</emphasis>
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sized form of
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is present in Recent cave deposits in the Christmas Creek area, inland of Townsville, N
<collectingRegion id="7F6B8A873A1E88D84DA3166238DBD448" country="Australia" name="Queensland">Queensland</collectingRegion>
(K. Aplin, in litt., 2004). This form differs from both typical
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<emphasis id="C16C50BBBFB596DEA57C5D2BEC3F87F6" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">penicillatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="75FC0F924EC0369F84599D7AA6440E20" authorityName="Tate and Archbold" authorityYear="1938" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Conilurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="randi">
<emphasis id="7AEE7712B1DC0FC2C545E738377E91FD" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">randi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; further comparisons are needed with
<taxonomicName id="DF8C4DB85FF1EBFF9A17E1B7BC12AB8C" baseAuthorityName="Gould" baseAuthorityYear="1858" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Conilurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hemileucurus">
<emphasis id="1616B0F1E90E690985EACDBD2065459A" italics="true" pageNumber="1309">hemileucurus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the
<typeStatus id="E3655C53131719992A5771B0A1C3D567">holotype</typeStatus>
of which was collected &quot;at an unknown locality by the A. C. Gregorys Expedition to North
<collectingCountry id="A3048405A921FCC3C9DB2D2216574831" name="Australia">Australia</collectingCountry>
in 1855-1856&quot; (
<bibRefCitation id="BF9572698E9FC661BA96938F78E0CE93" author="Mahoney, J. A. &amp; B. J. Richardson" refId="ref222168" refString="Mahoney, J. A., and B. J. Richardson. 1988. Muridae. Pp. 154 - 192, in Zoological catalogue of Australia. Mammalia (J. L. Bannister, et. al.). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 5: 1 - 274." year="1988">Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:156</bibRefCitation>
). This expedition visited localities not too far from Christmas Creek
</paragraph>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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