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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Mastacomys
SPECIES Mastacomys fuscus
| Author: | Thomas, 1882. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 9: 413. | | Common Name: | Broad-toothed Mastacomys | | Type Locality: | Australia, Tasmania; see Mahoney and Richardson (1988:160) for details. | | Distribution: | Australia; modern records from E New South Wales, E Victoria, and Tasmania, but late Pleistocene-Holocene fragments indicated range once included Kangaroo Isl, Carrieton, and Naracoorte in South Australia (Archer et al., 1984; Happold, 1995; Pledge, 1990; Robinson et al., 2000); see Menkhorst (1995b) for the range in Victoria, and Rounsevell et al. (1991) for a summary of Tasmanian records. | | Status: | brazenoriRide, 1956; castaneus (Higgins and Petterd, 1884) [not Waterhouse, 1843]; mordicus Thomas, 1922; wombeyensis Ride, 1956. | |
| Offspring: | Synonyms:
brazenori Ride, 1956
castaneus (Higgins and Petterd, 1884)
mordicus Thomas, 1922
wombeyensis Ride, 1956
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