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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Notomys
SPECIES Notomys macrotis
| Author: | Thomas, 1921. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 8: 538. | | Common Name: | Big-eared Hopping Mouse | | Type Locality: | Australia, Western Australia, Moore River. | | Distribution: | Known only from the type locality (Dixon, 1995d:578). | | Status: | IUCN – Extinct. | | Comments: | Represented only by the holotype and paratype from "Australia" (Mahoney, 1975). Apparently extinct. Closest phylogenetic relative is probably Notomys cervinus (Mahoney, 1975). Reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981) and Dixon (1995d). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
megalotis Iredale and Troughton, 1934
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