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

description: <i>Conilurus penicillatus</i> (Gould, 1842). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1842:12. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, Port Essington, sea shore. DISTRIBUTION: Australia; "northern coastal area of the Northern Territory, adjacent islands [including Melville Island, Groote Eylandt, and the Pellew Group], and the extreme north-east of Western Australia " (Watts and Aslin, 1981:133). SC Papua New Guinea in Morehead region (Waithman, 1979). SYNONYMS: <i>hemileucurus, melanura, melibius, randi.</i> COMMENTS: Analyses of external morphology of glans penis and spermatozoal structure and form provided by Breed (1984), Breed and Sarafis (1978), and Morrissey and Breed (1982). Results from studies of chromosomal features (Baverstock et al., 1977 c, 1983b), electrophoretic data (Baverstock et al., 1981), phallic morphology (Lidicker and Brylski, 1987), and dental traits (Misonne, 1969) supported the hypothesis that C. <i>penicillatus</i> is phylogenetically closely related to <i>Mesembriomys gouldii,</i> and microcomplement fixation data placed it in the same clade close to species of <i>Leporillus</i> and <i>Mesembriomys</i> (see Watts et al., 1992). <i>Conilurus penicillatus</i> is one of the few Old Endemic Australian murines that also occurs in SC New Guinea where it is still represented by only two specimens (Flannery, 19906:192).
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 586, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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