Mesembriomys macrurus (Peters, 1876)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 620

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scientific name	Mesembriomys macrurus (Peters, 1876)
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Mesembriomys macrurus (Peters, 1876) View in CoL . 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 .

References

Mahoney, J. A., and B. J. Richardson. 1988. Muridae. Pp. 154 - 192, in Zoological catalogue of Australia. Mammalia (J. L. Bannister, et. al.). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 5: 1 - 274.

Watts, C. H. S., and H. J. Aslin. 1981. The rodents of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 321 pp.