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--> GENUS Notomys
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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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
alutacea Brazenor, 1934 gouldi (Gould, 1863) macropus Thomas, 1921 richardsonii (Gray, 1844)
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