Pseudomys Gray 1832
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Pseudomys

description: <i>Pseudomys</i> Gray, 1832. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832:39. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Pseudomys australis</i> Gray, 1832. SYNONYMS: <i>Gyomys, Mastacomys, Paraleporillus, Thetomys.</i> COMMENTS: Taxonomic, distributional, and biological references to all species cataloged by Mahoney and Richardson (1988). Member of the Australian Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c), part of which is the Conilurini where Lee et al. (1981) and Baverstock (1984) placed <i>Pseudomys.</i> Data from several character suites have been used to estimate relationships among species of <i>Pseudomys:</i> anatomy of male and female reproductive tracts (Breed, 1980, 1985, 1986); phallic morphology (Lidicker and Brylski, 1987; Morrissey and Breed, 1982); spermatozoal morphology (Breed, 1983, 1984; Breed and Sarafis, 1978); electrophoretic (Baverstock et al., <i>1977 a, 1981</i>); and chromosomal (Baverstock et al., 1977c, 19836). Despite such different approaches, no study estimating phylogenetic relationships is available that integrates all these data with information from skins, skulls, and dentitions. So of all the distinctive groups of species comprising what is now called <i>Pseudomys,</i> opinion still ranges from including them all in one genus <i>(Pseudomys)</i> to allocating them to three genera <i>(</i> <i>Pseudomys, Gyomys,</i> and <i>Leggadina)</i> to merging <i>Mastacomys</i> and <i>Leporillus</i> with <i>Pseudomys</i> (see discussions in Baverstock et al., 1981; Watts and Aslin, 1981; Breed, 1983; Lidicker and Brylski, 1987; and Watts et al., 1992). Watts et al. (1992) discussed the futility of attempting to split <i>Pseudomys</i> and they regarded it as a single but complex genus in which results from microcomplement fixation confirmed its monophyly relative to the other Australian murines except <i>Mastacomys,</i> which they merge with <i>Pseudomys. Vie</i> follow that taxonomic decision here.
description: Published as part of <i>Guy G. Musser &amp; Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 644, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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