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--> FAMILY Muridae
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--> GENUS Notomys
SPECIES Notomys aquilo
| Author: | Thomas, 1921. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 8: 540. | | Common Name: | Northern Hopping Mouse | | Type Locality: | Australia, Queensland, Cape York. | | Distribution: | Australia; N Queensland and N Northern Territory (Groote Eylandt and N Arnhem Land); Watts and Aslin (1981:113). | | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Found only in three coastal or near-coastal areas of ridges around the Gulf of Carpentaria (Flannery, 1995c). Distribution, habitat, and conservation status of N. aquilo documented by Woinarski et al. (1999). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
carpentarius Johnson, 1959
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