Pseudomys hermannsburgensis Waite 1896

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 : 1457

Pseudomys hermannsburgensis Waite 1896

Pseudomys hermannsburgensis Waite 1896 , Rept. Horn Sci. Exped. Cent. Aust., Zool., Vol. 2: 405.

Type Locality: Australia, Northern Territory, George Gill Range (as restricted by lectotype designation; see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:176).

Vernacular Names: Sandy Inland Pseudomys.

Synonyms: Pseudomys brazenori Troughton 1937 .

Distribution: Australia; arid parts of Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory, W Queensland, W New South Wales, and NW Victoria ( Breed, 1995 c:604; Robinson et al., 2000; Watts and Aslin, 1981:190; see also the range retraction by Ellis, 1995 b).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Electrophoretic data ( Baverstock et al., 1981) and spermatozoal morphology (Breed, 1983) clustered P. hermannsburgensis with most other species in Pseudomys , but phallic morphology interpreted by Lidicker and Brylski (1987) indicated closer affinity to species they placed in Leggadina . Digestive tract traits in relation to diet documented by Murray et al. (1994). Reviewed by Breed (1995 c).