Leggadina Thomas, 1910

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 504-560 : 520

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scientific name	Leggadina Thomas, 1910
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Leggadina Thomas, 1910 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 6:606.

REVIEWED BY: C. H. S. Watts (CHSW)( Australia); A. C. Ziegler (ACZ)(New Guinea).

COMMENT: Included in Pseudomys by Ride, 1970:244, but considered a separate genus by Watts, 1976, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 100:105-108 (who included delicatulus and hermannsburgensis in Leggadina ), Mahoney and Posamentier, 1975, Aust. Mammal., 1 (4):334, and Fox and Briscoe, 1980, Aust. Mammal., 3(2): 109-126, who transferred delicatulus and hermannsburgensis to Pseudomys , and are followed here.

References

Fox, B. J., and D. A. Briscoe. 1980. Pseudomys pilligaensis, a new species of murid rodent from the Pilliga Scrub, Northern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy, 3: 109 - 126.

Mahoney, J. A., and H. Posamentier. 1975. The occurrence of the native rodent Pseudomys gracilicaudatus (Gould, 1845) (Rodentia: Muridae) in New South Wales. Journal of the Australian Mammal Society, 1: 333 - 346.

Ride, W. D. L. 1970. A guide to the native mammals of Australia. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 249 pp.

Watts, C. H. S. 1976. Leggadina lakedownensis, a new species of murid rodent from North Queensland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 100: 105 - 108.