Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Notomys longicaudatus

Description

Notomys longicaudatus (Gould, 1844). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1844:104.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Western Australia, Moore River.

DISTRIBUTION: Australia; Western Australia and Northern Territory (see Watts and Aslin, 1981:107).

STATUS: IUCN - Extinct.

SYNONYMS: sturti.

COMMENTS: No living animals have either been seen or trapped since 1901, and the species is apparently extinct (Watts and Aslin, 1981). Male reproductive anatomy and spermatozoal morphology is described by Breed (1990).

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 636, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Biodiversity

Family
Muridae
Genus
Notomys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gould
Species
longicaudatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Notomys longicaudatus (Gould, 1844) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Watts, C. H. S., and H. J. Aslin. 1981. The rodents of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 321 pp.
  • Breed, W. G. 1990. Reproductive anatomy and sperm morphology of the long-tailed hopping-mouse, Notomys longicaudatus (Rodentia: Muridae). Australian Mammalogy, 13: 201 - 204.