Pseudomys hermannsburgensis bolami Troughton, 1932c

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 369

Pseudomys hermannsburgensis bolami Troughton, 1932c

Rec. Aust. Mus. 18(6): 292. (20 April 1932).

Common name. Bolam’s Mouse.

Current name. Pseudomys bolami Troughton, 1932c ; following Jackson & Groves (2015).

Holotype. M.4938, by original designation. Pregnant female, skull, study skin, skinned body in alc., collected on 16 October 1921 by E. Le G. Troughton and J. H. Wright.

Condition. Cranium missing posterior end of the right zygomatic arch; right dentary missing ascending ramus; left dentary complete. Study skin: missing skin sheath from distal c. 1/3 of tail but tail vertebrae intact.

Type locality. Ooldea, on Trans-Australian Railway line, South Australia.

Paratypes. (11, by subsequent determination): M.2989, indeterminate sex, skull, flat skin; M.2990, female, body in alc.; M.2991, female, skull, study skin, all from Ooldea, presented by Le Souef. M.4644, subadult female, skull, study skin, and M.4645, subadult female, body in alc.; both from Rawlinna, S.A., presented by A. S. Le Souef. M.4897, female, skull, study skin, from Ooldea, collected by E. Troughton and Wright. M.4898, indeterminate sex, desiccated body with skull in situ; M.4929, sex indeterminate,?subadult, body in alc., both from Ooldea, donated by A. S. Le Souef. M.4931–32, both adult females, bodies in alc., Ooldea,?presented by Le Souef. M.26820, skull and skeletal elements of individuals from owl pellets, Fisher, S.A. collected on 28 December 1923 by Troughton and Wright, registered June 1992.

Comments. Troughton does not indicate the number of specimens in the type series. Under the heading “specimens examined”, he cites the registration number of the holotype and mentions other specimens collected by Troughton and Wright from Ooldea, both dried and spirit, and an unspecified number from Fisher and Rawlinna donated by Le Souef. No reference is made in the original description to an allotype or paratypes and no registration numbers are given other than the holotype. The specimens listed above match the series indicated by Troughton. Although none are labelled as paratypes either in the register or on specimen tags, we interpret Troughton’s “specimens examined” as the type series.Associated with this series are M.4933–37, litter of five in alc., all from Ooldea, collected by Troughton and Wright. The only material located from Fisher is M.26820 from owl pellets “from blow hole” near railway line. Photographs of the holotype skull are given by Kitchener, Adams & Baverstock (1984), who elevated bolami to species rank.