HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Pseudomys
SPECIES Pseudomys occidentalis
Author: | Tate, 1951. | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 97: 246. | Common Name: | Western Pseudomys | Type Locality: | Australia, Western Australia, Tambellup. | Distribution: | Australia; extant range in SW Western Australia, subfossil specimens indicate species extended along S coastline to Kangaroo Isl off coast of South Australia (Kitchener, 1992; Robinson et al., 2000; Watts and Aslin, 1981:205). | Status: | U.S. ESA and IUCN – Endangered. | Comments: | Considered "rare and likely to become extinct," but range was contracting before arrival of Europeans (Watts and Aslin, 1981:205). Electrophoretic data clustered P. occidentalis with all other Pseudomys analyzed except P. fumeus, P. gracilicaudatus, P. nanus, and P. shortridgei (Baverstock et al., 1981). Reviewed by Whisson and Kitchener (1995). |
|
|
|
|