Pseudomys fumeus Brazenor, 1934 . Mem. Nat. Mus. Melb., 8:158.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Victoria, Turton's Pass, Otway Forest .

DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Victoria (see map in Watts and Aslin, 1981:202). Range during Late Pleistocene extended into E New South Wales (Wakefield, 1972a).

STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Rare.

COMMENTS: Electrophoretic data separated P. fumeus from other species of Pseudomys (Baverstock et al., 1981); phallic morphology suggested a close tie between P. fumeus, P. albocinereus, and P. shortridgei, a group for which the generic name Gyomys is available (Lidicker and Brylski, 1987:635); but spermatozoal structure tied P. fumeus with most other species of Pseudomys (Breed, 1983) .