Mastacomys fuscus Thomas 1882

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1359

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Mastacomys fuscus Thomas 1882 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 9: 413.

Type Locality: Australia, Tasmania; see Mahoney and Richardson (1988:160) for details.

Vernacular Names: Broad-toothed Mastacomys.

Synonyms: Mastacomys brazenori Ride 1956 ; Mastacomys castaneus (Higgins and Petterd 1884) ; Mastacomys mordicus Thomas 1922 ; Mastacomys wombeyensis Ride 1956 .

Distribution: Australia; modern records from E New South Wales, E Victoria, and Tasmania, but late Pleistocene-Holocene fragments indicated range once included Kangaroo Isl, Carrieton, and Naracoorte in South Australia ( Archer et al., 1984; Happold, 1995; Pledge, 1990; Robinson et al., 2000); see Menkhorst (1995 b) for the range in Victoria, and Rounsevell et al. (1991) for a summary of Tasmanian records.

Conservation: brazenori Ride, 1956 ; castaneus (Higgins and Petterd, 1884) [not Waterhouse, 1843]; mordicus Thomas, 1922 ; wombeyensis Ride, 1956 .