Pseudomys auritus Thomas, 1910
Long-eared mouse, Long-eared pseudo-rat, Long-eared pseudo-mouse, Basalt plains mouse, Long-eared rat (used by Wood Jones, 1925:313)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pseudomys australis auritus Thomas, 1910; Pseudomys basalticus Fraser & Wells, 2006:152; Pseudomys sp. (Basalt Plains Mouse)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Burbidge, 2024)
Last record: c.1850 (Burbidge & Woinarski, 2016); prior to 1853 (Medlin, 2023:446); 1853 (Troughton, 1941)
IUCN status: Extinct
Distribution
South Australia & Victoria, Australia
Type locality: "Lake Albert, S.A." (Mahoney & Richardson, 1988:172)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: BMNH 53.10.22.6 (skin & skull) (Mahoney & Richardson, 1988:172)
Other specimens:
Four specimens are held in the Museum Victoria palaeontological collection: P 201634 and 5, 201967 and 203333.
NHM 1843.8.12.52 (Roycroft et al., 2021, 2022)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Thomas, Oldfield. (1910). New Australian Muridae of the genus Pseudomys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 6: 607-610.
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