Pseudomys fieldi Waite 1896

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 : 1456

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11335403

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Pseudomys fieldi Waite 1896
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Pseudomys fieldi Waite 1896 View in CoL

Pseudomys fieldi Waite 1896 View in CoL , Rept. Horn Sci. Exped. Cent. Aust., Zool., Vol. 2: 403.

Type Locality: Australia, S Northern Territory, Alice Springs.

Vernacular Names: Shark Bay Pseudomys.

Synonyms: Pseudomys praeconis Thomas 1910 .

Distribution: Australia. The only natural living population occurs on Bernier Isl in Shark Bay, Western Australia; some animals from there were translocated to Doole Isl in Exmouth Gulf in 1993 ( Morris and Robinson, 1995).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I as P. praeconis ; U.S. ESA – Endangered as P. fieldi and P. praeconis ; IUCN – Critically Endangered as P. fieldi, Vulnerable as P. praeconis .

Discussion: Clustered with most other species of Pseudomys , judged by electrophoretic data ( Baverstock et al., 1981, reported under praeconis ). In the 1980s, fieldi was thought to be represented only by the holotype collected at Alice Springs in Northern Territory in 1895 and praeconis was known only from Bernier Isl. While listing fieldi as a species, Watts and Aslin (1981:171) wrote that "It is difficult to determine whether or not this represents a distinct species or a rather aberrant specimen of some other species." Subfossil samples have now been discovered along the west coast south of Shark Bay, and through Western Australia (the upper Gascoyne, northern Goldfields, and Gibson Desert) to the S region of Northern Territory. Study of this material and the holotypes of fieldi and praeconis indicates that all the samples represent the same species and that it once had an extensive mainland distribution before European settlement ( Morris and Robinson, 1995).

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Universidade de São Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Muridae

Genus

Pseudomys

Loc

Pseudomys fieldi Waite 1896

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

Pseudomys fieldi

Waite 1896: 403
1896
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