Leggadina lakedownensis Watts, 1976

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 : 601

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scientific name	Leggadina lakedownensis Watts, 1976
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Leggadina lakedownensis Watts, 1976 View in CoL . Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 100:105.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Queensland, Lakeland Downs, 110 km north of Cooktown .

DISTRIBUTION: Australia; N Queensland, where it has been recorded only from region of Princess Charlotte Bay and Lakeland Downs (see Watts and Aslin, 1981:211), and Western Australia at Kimberley (specimens in the Western Australian Museum; Watts, in litt.).

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.

COMMENTS: A distinctive species distinguished from its close relative L. forresti by a suite of morphological, biochemical, and chromosomal traits ( Baverstock et al., 1976a; Watts, 1976).