Notomys mordax Thomas, 1922:317
Darling Downs hopping mouse, Darling Downs hopping-mouse, payi
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1840's (Johnson, 2006:168; Burbidge & Woinarski, 2016); 1845 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012; Lee et al., 2017); 1846 or before (Ride, 1970:202)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
The Darling Downs hopping mouse is only known from a single skull from Darling Downs, Queensland, believed to have been collected sometime during the 1840's (Watts, 2008). According to (Ride, 1970:202) it was among material which Charles Coxen sent to his brother-in-law John Gould, and which was registered in the British Museum in 1846.
Distribution
New South Wales (inferred) and Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia
Type locality: "Darling Downs, Qld." (Mahoney & Richardson, 1988:170)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: BMNH 46.4.4.65 (damaged skull) (Mahoney & Richardson, 1988:170)
Other material:
Cast material in the Australian Museum (Parnaby et al., 2017:401).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Thomas, Oldfield. (1922). Two new jerboa-rats (Notomys). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9) 9: 315-317.
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