Notomys amplus Brazenor, 1936:7
Short-tailed hopping mouse, Large-desert hopping mouse, Brazenor's hopping-mouse, (arruja?), yoontoo, ?yurndu (Tunbridge, 1991:81)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Burbidge, 2024)
Last record: 1896 (Parker, 1973:27; Johnson, 2006:169; Fisher & Blomberg, 2012; Lee et al., 2017)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
The Short-tailed hopping mouse is known only from 2 recent specimens collected in 1896 by the Horn Expedition from Charlotte Waters, Northern Territory (Finlayson, 1961). As well as material from owl pellets in the Flinders Ranges (Smith, 1977).
Distribution
South Australia and Northern Territory (historically) & Western Australia (prehistorically), Australia
Type locality: "Charlotte Waters, N.T." (Mahoney & Richardson, 1988:166)
Prehistorically: Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, Western Australia, Australia (Baynes et al., 2019)
Anatomy & Morphology
Body mass: ~100gm (Johnson, 2006:169).
Biology & Ecology
"Ecology: terrestrial."
(Mahoney & Richardson, 1988:166)
Hypodigm
The Short-tailed hopping mouse is known only from 2 recent specimens collected in 1896 by the Horn Expedition from Charlotte Waters, Northern Territory (Finlayson, 1961). As well as material from owl pellets in the Flinders Ranges (Smith, 1977).
Holotype: NMV C512 (female; skin & skull) (Mahoney & Richardson, 1988:166)
Other specimens:
MV C512 (Roycroft et al., 2021, 2022)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
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