Leggadina forresti (Thomas 1906)

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 : 1339

Leggadina forresti (Thomas 1906)

[Mus] forresti Thomas 1906 , Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1906 (32): 6.

Type Locality: Australia, Northern Territory, Alexandria (for additional information, see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:158).

Vernacular Names: Forrest's Leggadina.

Synonyms: Leggadina berneyi ( Troughton 1936) ; Leggadina messorius (Thomas 1925) ; Leggadina waitei (Troughton 1932) .

Distribution: Inland Australia; W half of Queensland, NW New South Wales, N South Australia, S Northern Territory, and localities in far eastern part of Western Australia ( Banks and Rushton, 1998; Reid and Morton, 1995; Robinson et al., 2000; Watts and Aslin, 1981). Populations in Pilbara region, including Thevenard Isl, once considered to be L. forresti , are now referred to L. lakedownensis ( Cooper et al., 2003 a; Moro et al., 1998).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981), Reid and Morton (1995), and Cooper et al. (2003 a).