Zyzomys pedunculatus (Waite, 1896) . Rept. Horn Sci. Exped. Cent. Aust., Zool., 2:395.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, Alice Springs, but this locality is suspect (Kitchener, 1989) .

DISTRIBUTION: C Australia; Northern Territory (see map and discussion in Watts and Aslin, 1981:143).

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

SYNONYMS: brachyotis.

COMMENTS: Rare (now even believed extinct, Flannery, in litt.) and restricted to rocks. Distribution of fossils indicated species "may once have extended across the rocky ranges of central Western Australia, through the Hamersleys to the coast" (Watts and Aslin, 1981:143).