Species Pseudomys gouldii (Waterhouse, 1839)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mus gouldii Waterhouse, G.R. 1839. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., During the Years 1832 to 1836. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. Sec. G.S. naturalist to the Expedition. Pt 10 Pt 2 Mammalia. London : Smith, Elder & Co. 60 pp. (including 49-100) 9 pls. [publication date established from Sherborn, C.D. 1897. Notes on the dates of 'The Zoology of the Beagle'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 20: 483] [67].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 55.12.24.149 ♀ skin & very incomplete skull (the lectotype is specimen 519 of Waterhouse, G.R. 1838. Catalogue of the Mammalia Preserved in the Museum of the Zoological Society of London. London : The Zoological Society of London 68 pp. [54] and specimen 743 of the hand-written Zoological Society of London's Mammal Catalogue Vol. 5), N of Hunter River, NSW.
• Pseudomys (Pseudomys) rawlinnae Troughton, E. le G. 1932. On five new rats of the genus Pseudomys. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 287-294 [289].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM M4642 ♂ skin & skull, Rawlinna, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988] [175]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Now extinct.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrowing, folivore, terrestrial.

 

General References

Dixon, J.M. 1995. Gould's Mouse Pseudomys gouldii. pp. 600-601 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Gould, J. 1863. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould

Menkhorst, P. & Knight, F. 2004. A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford University Press

Waterhouse, G.R. 1839. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., During the Years 1832 to 1836. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. Sec. G.S. naturalist to the Expedition. Pt 10 Pt 2 Mammalia. London : Smith, Elder & Co. 60 pp. (including 49-100) 9 pls. [publication date established from Sherborn, C.D. 1897. Notes on the dates of 'The Zoology of the Beagle'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 20: 483]

Watts, C.H.S. & Aslin, H.J. 1981. The Rodents of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xii 321 pp. 16 pls

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study (Gould's Mouse)