Pseudomys apodemoides Finlayson 1932

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1454

Pseudomys apodemoides Finlayson 1932

Pseudomys apodemoides Finlayson 1932 , Trans. R. Proc. Soc. S. Aust., 56: 170.

Type Locality: Australia, Southern Australia, Coombe.

Vernacular Names: Silky Pseudomys.

Distribution: Australia; Mallee-heath of SE South Australia and W Victoria (Murray-Darling Basin); see maps in Cockburn (1995 a:586), Menkhorst (1995 c:214), and Watts and Aslin (1981:199, only the portion in SE South Australia and W Victoria); also see Robinson et al. (2000).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Phylogenetic relationships are equivocal to some (see discussion in Lidicker and Brylski, 1987:635, and references therein), but not to other workers (see preceding account).