Pseudomys desertor Troughton, 1932

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 645-646

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7284802
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scientific name	Pseudomys desertor Troughton, 1932
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Pseudomys desertor Troughton, 1932 View in CoL . Rec. Aust. Mus., 18:293.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, "Central Australia " (see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:174) .

DISTRIBUTION: Arid regions of Australia; Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria ( Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:174).

SYNONYMS: murrayensis, subrufus.

COMMENTS: Spermatozoal morphology similar to P. australis and many other species of Pseudomys (Breed, 1983) . Both names listed above are unused senior synonyms of desertor and should not be used ( Mahoney and Richardson, 1988: 174).