Pseudomys occidentalis Tate, 1951

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 occidentalis Tate, 1951
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Pseudomys occidentalis Tate, 1951 View in CoL . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 97:246.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Western Australia, Tambellup .

DISTRIBUTION: Australia; extant range in SW Western Australia, subfossil specimens indicate species extended along S coastline to Kangaroo Isl off coast of South Australia (see map and discussion in Watts and Aslin, 1981:205).

STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Rare.

COMMENTS: Considered "rare and likely to become extinct," but range was contracting before arrival of Europeans ( Watts and Aslin, 1981:205). Electrophoretic data clustered P. occidentalis with all other Pseudomys analyzed except P. fumeus , P. gracilicaudatus , P. nanus , and P. shortridgei ( Baverstock et al., 1981) .