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SPECIES Leggadina forresti

Author:Thomas, 1906.
Citation:Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1906(32): 6.
Common Name:Forrest’s Leggadina
Type Locality:Australia, Northern Territory, Alexandria (for additional information, see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:158).
Distribution:Inland Australia; W half of Queensland, NW New South Wales, N South Australia, S Northern Territory, and localities in far eastern part of Western Australia (Banks and Rushton, 1998; Reid and Morton, 1995; Robinson et al., 2000; Watts and Aslin, 1981). Populations in Pilbara region, including Thevenard Isl, once considered to be L. forresti, are now referred to L. lakedownensis (Cooper et al., 2003a; Moro et al., 1998).
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).
Comments:Reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981), Reid and Morton (1995), and Cooper et al. (2003a).
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Synonyms:

    berneyi (Troughton, 1936)
    messorius (Thomas, 1925)
    waitei (Troughton, 1932)

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