Pseudomys oralis Thomas, 1921

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 : 648

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scientific name	Pseudomys oralis Thomas, 1921
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Pseudomys oralis Thomas, 1921 View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 8:621.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia; exact place unknown, but likely located in NE New South Wales or SE Queensland ( Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:179) .

DISTRIBUTION: Australia; extant specimens from NE New South Wales and SE Queensland, but Late Pleistocene fossils are from farther south in New South Wales and E Victoria (see map in Watts and Aslin, 1981:170).

STATUS: IUCN - Rare.

COMMENTS: Originally described as a subspecies of P. australis (see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988:179). One of the least known and rarest of Pseudomys ( Watts and Aslin, 1981) .