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

description: <i>Leporillus conditor</i> (Sturt, 1848). Narr. Exped. C. Aust., 1:120. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, Polia area, about 45 miles from Laidley Ponds. DISTRIBUTION: Australia; once ranged on mainland from lower Darling River to Nullarbor Plain in New South Wales, South Australia, and SE corner of Western Australia, and presumed to be extinct; living population on Franklin Isl in the Nuyt's Archipelago of W South Australia (Mahoney and Richardson, 1988: 160; Watts and Aslin, 1981: 147). STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Rare. SYNONYMS: <i>jonesi.</i> COMMENTS: Phylogenetic significance of spermatozoal morphology reported by Breed and Sarafis (1978); chromosomal morphology described by Baverstock et al. (1977c). Electrophoretic data indicated <i>L. conditor</i> is phylogenetically closely allied to <i>Pseudomys</i> (Baverstock et al., 1981), but information from analyses of phallic and dental morphology placed <i>L. conditor</i> in same monophyletic group as <i>Conilurus</i> and <i>Mesembriomys,</i> to the exclusion of <i>Pseudomys</i> (Lidicker and Brylski, 1987; Misonne, 1969), which is also supported by albumin data (Watts et al., 1992).
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 604, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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