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).