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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Pseudomys
SPECIES Pseudomys patrius
| Author: | Thomas and Dollman, 1909. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1908: 791. | | Common Name: | Eastern Pebble-mound Pseudomys | | Type Locality: | Australia; Queensland, Mount Inkerman; see Mahoney and Richardson (1988:179). | | Distribution: | Australia; coastal region of NE Queensland, along the Gread Dividing Range from near Townsville to Kilkivan (Van Dyck, 1997). | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Treated as a distinct species by Fox and Briscoe (1980) and Mahoney and Richardson (1988:179), but earlier judged by Mahoney to be a synonym of P. delicatulus (Kitchener, 1985:218), where it was placed by Watts and Aslin (1981) and Braithwaite and Covacevich (1995). Recently patrius was returned to the status of a species (Van Dyck, 1997), an action reinforced by Breed’s (2000) study of sperm head morphology: "P. patrius. . . has a sperm head morphology that differs markedly in its structural organisation from the spermatozoon of all P. delicatulus so far examined." |
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