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SPECIES Notomys mitchellii

Author:Ogilby, 1838.
Citation:Lond. Edinb. Philos. Mag. J. Sci., 12: 96.
Common Name:Mitchell’s Hopping Mouse
Type Locality:Australia, Victoria, about 12 km SE Lake Boga (see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:169).
Distribution:Australia; S Western Australia, S South Australia, and W Victoria (Bennett and Lumsden, 1995:213; Robinson et al., 2000; Watts, 1995c:579; Watts and Aslin, 1981:118); once occurred in SW New South Wales but is now apparently extinct there (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:170).
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:The largest living species of Notomys; reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981) and Watts (1995c).
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Synonyms:

    alutacea Brazenor, 1934
    gouldi (Gould, 1863)
    macropus Thomas, 1921
    richardsonii (Gray, 1844)

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