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--> FAMILY Muridae
--> SUBFAMILY Murinae
--> GENUS Notomys
SPECIES Notomys amplus
Author: | Brazenor, 1936. | Citation: | Mem. Nat. Mus. Melb., 9: 7. | Common Name: | Short-tailed Hopping Mouse | Type Locality: | Australia, Northern Territory, Charlotte Waters. | Distribution: | Australia; S Northern Territory and N South Australia (see Watts and Aslin, 1981:104); recorded as subfossils from South Australia (Robinson et al., 2000). | Status: | IUCN – Extinct. | Comments: | Known by only two extant specimens from the type locality (Watts and Aslin, 1981) and a skin collected during the last century from Burt Plain near Alice Springs (in the Australian Museum; T. Flannery, in litt., 2002), but also represented by owl pellet deposits from Flinders Ranges of South Australia (Dixon, 1995b); apparently extinct (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988; Watts and Aslin, 1981). Reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981b) and Dixon (1995d). |
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