Notomys amplus Brazenor, 1936 . Mem. Nat. Mus. Melb., 9:7.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, Charlotte Waters .

DISTRIBUTION: Australia; S Northern Territory and N South Australia (see map in Watts and Aslin, 1981:104).

STATUS: IUCN - Extinct.

COMMENTS: Known by only two extant specimens from the type locality (Watts and Aslin, 1981) and a skin collected during the last cenruty from Burt Plain near Alice Springs (in the Australian Museum, Flannery, in litt.), but also represented by owl pellet deposits from Flinders Ranges of South Australia; apparently extinct (Watts and Aslin, 1981; Mahoney and Richardson, 1988).