Pseudomys oralis Thomas 1921

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1459

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scientific name

Pseudomys oralis Thomas 1921
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Pseudomys oralis Thomas 1921 View in CoL

Pseudomys oralis Thomas 1921 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 8: 621.

Type Locality: Australia; exact place unknown, but likely located in NE New South Wales or SE Queensland ( Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:179).

Vernacular Names: Hastings River Pseudomys.

Distribution: Australia; extant specimens from NE New South Wales and SE Queensland, but late Pleistocene fossils are from farther south in New South Wales and E Victoria (Gynther and O’Reilly, 1995; Meek and Triggs, 1999; Poole, 1994; Read, 1993; Watts and Aslin, 1981:170).

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Originally described as a subspecies of P. australis . Once considered to be the least known and rarest of Pseudomys ( Watts and Aslin, 1981) , but is less rare than thought although extremely local in distribution ( Kirkpatrick, 1995). Body size and geographic distribution documented by Read (1993).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Pseudomys

Loc

Pseudomys oralis Thomas 1921

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Pseudomys oralis

Thomas 1921: 621
1921
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