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GENUS Mesembriomys

Author:Palmer, 1906.
Citation:Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 19: 97.
Type Species:Mus hirsutus Gould, 1842 (= Hapalotis gouldii Gray, 1843).
Comments:PseudomysDivision. Member of the Australian Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c:167), which includes the Conilurini where Baverstock (1984) placed Mesembriomys, and closely related to Leporillus and Conilurus (Watts et al., 1992). Analyses of immunological distances (Watts and Baverstock, 1994b, 1996) and sperm morphology (Breed and Aplin, 1994; Breed, 1997) support the inclusion of Mesembriomys in large clade that includes members of our Hydromys, Xeromys, Pseudomys, and Uromys Divisions from Australia and New Guinea (the "Australasian clade" of Watts and Baverstock, 1995b, 1996), but not our strictly New Guinea Pogonomys Division or Lorentzimys Division. Mahoney and Richardson (1988:164) cataloged taxonomic, distributional, and biological references.
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SPECIES gouldii

SPECIES macrurus

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