Species Pseudomys oralis Thomas, 1921

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• Pseudomys australis oralis Thomas, O. 1921. On three new Australian rats. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 8: 618-622 [621].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 47.1.20.2 skin & skull, unknown locality.

  Type locality references:

  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] [179] (type locality details are lacking for the holotype but, on the basis of what is known about the distribution of P. a. oralis Thomas since European settlement of Australia in 1788, it seems likely that the type locality is located in NE NSW or SE QLD).

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Granivore, tall open forest, terrestrial.

 

General References

Fox, B.J., Read, D.G., Jefferys, E. & Luo, J. 1994. Diet of the Hastings River mouse (Pseudomys oralis). Wildlife Research 21: 491-505

Gynther, I.C. & O'Reilly, P.S. 1995. A new locality for the Hastings River mouse, Pseudomys oralis, in southeast Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38: 513-518

Jerry, D.R., Dow, T.A., Elphinstone, M.S. & Baverstock, P.R. 1998. Historical and contemporary maternal population structuring in the endangered Hastings River mouse (Pseudomys oralis). Conservation Biology 12: 1017-1022

King, G.C. 1984. Habitat utilized by Pseudomys oralis Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae). Australian Mammalogy 7: 139-147

King, G.C. & Mackowski, C.M. 1986. Two new localities for Pseudomys oralis Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae) in New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 9: 63-65

Kirkpatrick, T.H. 1995. Hastings River Mouse Pseudomys oralis. pp. 614-615 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Lee, A.K. 1995. The Action Plan for Australian Rodents. Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency 62 pp.

Meek, P.D., Radford, S.L. & Tolhurst, B.L. 2006. Summer-autumn home range and habitat use of the Hastings River mouse Pseudomys oralis (Rodentia: Muridae). Australian Mammalogy 28: 39-50

Poole, M.A. 1994. The Hastings River mouse, Pseudomys oralis, from Gambubal State Forest, southeast Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 37: 280

Pyke, G.H. & Read, D.G. 2002. Hastings River mouse Pseudomys oralis: a biological review. Australian Mammalogy 24: 151-176

Read, D.G. 1993. Body size in Hastings River mouse Pseudomys oralis (Rodentia: Muridae) from new and old locations. The Australian Zoologist 29: 117-123

Read, D.G. 1993. Prescriptions for the identification of habitats of the Hastings River mouse Pseudomys oralis (Rodentia: Muridae). Technical Paper - Forestry Commission of New South Wales 58

Read, D.G. & Tweedie, T.D. 1996. Floristics of habitats of Pseudomys oralis (Rodentia: Muridae). Wildlife Research 23: 485-494

Townley, S.J. 2000. The ecology of the Hastings River mouse Pseudomys oralis (Rodentia: Muridae) in northeastern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland. Ph.D. thesis. Lismore, NSW: Southern Cross University

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 (Hastings River Mouse)