Leporillus conditor (Sturt, 1848)

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 : 604

Leporillus conditor (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: jonesi .

COMMENTS: Phylogenetic significance of spermatozoal morphology reported by Breed and Sarafis (1978); chromosomal morphology described by Baverstock et al. (1977c). Electrophoretic data indicated L. conditor is phylogenetically closely allied to Pseudomys ( Baverstock et al., 1981) , but information from analyses of phallic and dental morphology placed L. conditor in same monophyletic group as Conilurus and Mesembriomys , to the exclusion of Pseudomys ( Lidicker and Brylski, 1987; Misonne, 1969), which is also supported by albumin data ( Watts et al., 1992).