Pseudomys desertor Troughton 1932

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 : 1456

Pseudomys desertor Troughton 1932

Pseudomys desertor Troughton 1932 , Rec. Aust. Mus ., 18: 293.

Type Locality: Australia, "Central Australia " (see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:174).

Vernacular Names: Desert Pseudomys.

Synonyms: Pseudomys murrayensis (Krefft 1862) ; Pseudomys subrufus (Krefft 1862) .

Distribution: Arid and semiarid tropical regions of Australia; Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, and possibly Victoria; also recorded from Bernier Isl, Western Australia ( Kerle, 1995 a:595; Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:174); Robinson et al. (2000) summarized the distribution in South Australia; Williams (1995 c) discussed the possible distribution in Victoria.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: 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 resurrected ( Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:174). Reviewed by Kerle (1995 a). Read et al. (1999) documented the distribution, ecology, and current status of P. desertor in South Australia.