Pseudomys gouldii
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Description
Pseudomys gouldii (Waterhouse, 1839). Zool. Voy. H.M.S. "Beagle," Mammalia, 2:67.
TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, north of Hunter River (see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:175).
DISTRIBUTION: Australia; range based on Recent and subfossil specimens includes W Western Australia and Murray-Darling basin in E South Australia, New South Wales, and N Victoria.
STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Extinct.
SYNONYMS: rawlinnae.
COMMENTS: For full citation and other information see Mahoney and Richardson (1988:175). Apparently extinct (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:175); no live animals seen or collected since the middle 1850's (Watts and Aslin, 1981:169). Phallic morphology indicated gouldii is clustered with P. australis, P. higginsi, and P. nanus (Lidicker and Brylski, 1987).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Pseudomys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Waterhouse
- Species
- gouldii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudomys gouldii (Waterhouse, 1839) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
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.
- Lidicker, W. Z., Jr., and P. V. Brylski. 1987. The conilurine rodent radiation of Australia, analyzed on the basis of phallic morphology. Journal of Mammalogy, 68: 617 - 641.