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Zyzomys pedunculatus
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Description
Zyzomys pedunculatus (Waite, 1896). Rept. Horn Sci. Exped. Cent. Aust., Zool., 2:395.
TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, Alice Springs, but this locality is suspect (Kitchener, 1989).
DISTRIBUTION: C Australia; Northern Territory (see map and discussion in Watts and Aslin, 1981:143).
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.
SYNONYMS: brachyotis.
COMMENTS: Rare (now even believed extinct, Flannery, in litt.) and restricted to rocks. Distribution of fossils indicated species "may once have extended across the rocky ranges of central Western Australia, through the Hamersleys to the coast" (Watts and Aslin, 1981:143).
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 pages 674-675, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Zyzomys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Waite
- Species
- pedunculatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zyzomys pedunculatus (Waite, 1896) sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Kitchener, D. J. 1989. Taxonomic appraisal of Zyzomys (Rodentia, Muridae) with descriptions of two new species from the Northern Territory, Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 14: 331 - 373.
- Watts, C. H. S., and H. J. Aslin. 1981. The rodents of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 321 pp.