Pseudomys oralis Thomas, 1921 . 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) .