Pseudomys gracilicaudatus Gould 1845

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 : 1457

Pseudomys gracilicaudatus Gould 1845

Pseudomys gracilicaudatus Gould 1845 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1845: 77.

Type Locality: Australia, Queensland, Darling Downs, Oakey Creek; see Mahoney and Richardson (1988:175).

Vernacular Names: Eastern Chestnut Pseudomys.

Synonyms: Pseudomys ultra Troughton 1939 .

Distribution: Australia; modern range along the eastern coast from Townsville in N Queensland to Sydney area in New South Wales; subfossil specimens from farther south in New South Wales ( Mahoney and Posamentier, 1975) and from S Victoria ( Fox, 1995 a:601; Watts and Aslin, 1981:180; Watts and Tweedie, 1992).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Phylogenetically closely related to P. nanus , an estimate based on spermatozoal morphology (Breed, 1983), electrophoretic data ( Baverstock et al., 1977 a, 1981), and morphology of skin, skull, and teeth ( Watts and Aslin, 1981). Fox (1995 a) provided a short recent review.