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

description: <i>Pseudomys fuscus</i> (Thomas, 1882). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 9:413. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Tasmania. DISTRIBUTION: Australia; modern records from E New South Wales, S Victoria, and Tasmania, but Late Pleistocene-Holocene fragments indicated range once included Kangaroo Island, Carrieton, and Naracoorte in South Australia (Archer et al., 1984; Pledge, 1990). SYNONYMS: <i>brazenori, mordicus, wombeyensis.</i> COMMENTS: The <i>form fuscus</i> and the other taxa listed above were all described and revised under <i>Mastacomys</i> (Ride, 1956; Wakefield, 1972b), and this genus has always been recognized as part of the Australian fauna (Watts and Aslin, 1981; Mahoney and Richardson, 1988). However, chromosomal morphology (Baverstock et al., 1977c), Gbanding homologies (Baverstock et al., 1983b), electrophoretic data (Baverstock et al., 1981), and phallic morphology (Lidicker and Brylski, 1987) linked <i>fuscus</i> with some species of <i>Pseudomys,</i> and Watts et al. (1992) united <i>fuscus</i> with <i>Pseudomys.</i> Sperm head structure reported by Breed (1984), and variation in external morphology of glans penis documented by Morrissey and Breed (1982). Taxonomic, distributional, and biological references cataloged by Mahoney and Richardson (1988:160).
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 646, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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