Mesembriomys macrurus (Peters, 1876) . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 355.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Western Australia, "at a small mainland creek, Mermaid Strait" (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:164) .

DISTRIBUTION: N Western Australia and N Northern Territory (see map and discussion in Watts and Aslin, 1981:128); probably extinct in NW central region of Western Australia (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:164).

SYNONYMS: boweri .