Notomys amplus Brazenor 1936

Notomys amplus Brazenor 1936, Mem. Nat. Mus . Melb., 9: 7.

Type Locality: Australia, Northern Territory, Charlotte Waters.

Vernacular Names: Short-tailed Hopping Mouse.

Distribution: Australia; S Northern Territory and N South Australia (see Watts and Aslin, 1981:104); recorded as subfossils from South Australia (Robinson et al., 2000).

Conservation: IUCN – Extinct.

Discussion: Known by only two extant specimens from the type locality (Watts and Aslin, 1981) and a skin collected during the last century from Burt Plain near Alice Springs (in the Australian Museum; T. Flannery, in litt., 2002), but also represented by owl pellet deposits from Flinders Ranges of South Australia (Dixon, 1995 b); apparently extinct (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988; Watts and Aslin, 1981). Reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981 b) and Dixon (1995 d).