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--> GENUS Zyzomys
SPECIES Zyzomys argurus
| Author: | Thomas, 1889. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 3: 433. | | Common Name: | Common Australian Rock Rat | | Type Locality: | Australia, probably Northern Territory (see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:191). | | Distribution: | Northern Australia; always in rocky outcrops in Pilbara region of Western Australia through Kimberleys to N coastal Queensland between Cooktown and Townsville; also on offshore islands (Fleming, 1995a:621; Watts and Aslin, 1981:138). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Patterns of allozymic comparisons between populations discordant with chromosomal differences (Baverstock et al., 1977d). Reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981) and Fleming (1995a); also see Churchill (1996). |
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