Notomys longicaudatus Gould, 1844:104
Long-tailed hopping mouse, Long-tailed jerboa mouse (used by Wood Jones, 1925:338), Long-tailed jerboa-rat (Ogilby, 1892:119), kor-tung, gool-a-wa, koolawa, talamba, ?yurndu (Tunbridge, 1991:81)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Hapalotis longicaudata Gould, 1844:104; Conilurus longicaudatus Gould, 1844:104; Podanomalus longicaudatus Gould, 1844:104; Notomys sturti Thomas, 1921b; Notomys longicaudatus sturti Thomas, 1921b
Placed in the genus Podanomalus by (Brazenor, 1934).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1901 (Ride, 1970:202; Johnson, 2006:169; Fisher & Blomberg, 2012; Lee et al., 2017); 1901-2 (Parker, 1973:26)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
A specimen was collected by (Sturt, 1847) from the Coonabaralba Range in 1845.
According to (Ride, 1970:202) this species was last collected in 1901 at Barrow Creek by Spencer and Gillen.
"A small fragment of skull found in 1977 in a recent owl pellet—a regurgitated bolus of fur and bones—near The Granites in the Northern Territory suggests that it may have survived longer than historical collection records indicate."
Source: http://rainforestinfo.org.au/spp/Schouten/long.htm
The above probably refers to (Smith, 1977).
Distribution
NSW, NT, SA and WA, Australia; Prehistorically: Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, Western Australia, Australia
Type locality: "Moore River, W.A." (Mahoney & Richardson, 1988:168)
Type locality (sturti): "Mt Gipps area, adjacent to Broken Hill, N.S.W. (as "Coonbaralba Range about 85 miles from Laidley's Ponds", N.S.W.)" (Mahoney & Richardson, 1988:168)
Anatomy & Morphology
Body mass: ~100gm (Johnson, 2006:169).
Biology & Ecology
"Ecology: terrestrial, granivore"
(Mahoney & Richardson, 1988:168)
Hypodigm
Lectotype: BMNH 44.7.9.15 (skin) / BMNH 44.10.15.3 (skull) (female) (Mahoney & Richardson, 1988:168)
Holotype (sturti): BMNH 46.5.14.40 [contra Thomas, 1921a] (female; skin & skull) (Mahoney & Richardson, 1988:168)
Other specimens:
SAM M4392 (Breed, 1990:201)
AMNH 107400 (Alhajeri, 2021)
MV C6278 (Roycroft et al., 2021, 2022)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
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