Leggadina forresti
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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).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
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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.
- Troughton, E. L. G. 1936. A redescription of Solomys (" Mus ") salamonis Ramsay. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 61: 3 - 4.
- Banks, S., and A. Rushton. 1998. Eastern range extension of Forrest's mouse (Leggadina forresti). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 42 (2): 386.
- Reid, J. W. R., and S. R. Morton. 1995. Forrest's mouse, Leggadina forresti. Pp. 555 - 556, in Mammals of Australia (R. Strahan, ed.) Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 756 pp.
- Watts, C. H. S., and H. J. Aslin. 1981. The rodents of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 321 pp.
- Cooper, N. K., M. Adams, C. Anthony, and L. H. Schmitt. 2003 a. Morphological and genetic variation in Leggadina (Thomas, 1910) with special reference to Western Australian populations. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 21: 333 - 351.
- Moro, D., N. J. H. Campbell, M. S. Elphinstone, and P. R. Baverstock. 1998. The Thevenard Island mouse: Historic and conservation implications from mitochondrial DNA sequence-variation. Pacific Conservation Biology, 4: 282 - 288.