Pseudomys hermannsburgensis (Waite, 1896)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 647

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

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, George Gill Range (see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:176) .

DISTRIBUTION: Australia; arid parts of Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory, W Queensland, W New South Wales, and NW Victoria (see map in Watts and Aslin, 1981:190).

SYNONYMS: brazenori.

COMMENTS: Electrophoretic data ( Baverstock et al., 1981) and spermatozoal morphology (Breed, 1983) indicated P. hermannsburgensis is clustered with most other species in Pseudomys , but phallic morphology interpreted by Lidicker and Brylski (1987) as indicating closer affinity to species they place in Leggadina.