Pseudomys praeconis Thomas, 1910 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 6:608.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Western Australia, Peron Peninsula .

DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Western Australia Shark Bay region and Bernier Isl (see map in Watts and Aslin, 1981: 166).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Rare.

COMMENTS: Clustered with most other species of Pseudomys, judged by electrophoretic data (Baverstock et al., 1981).