Long-tailed Hopping Mouse
Notomys longicaudatus (Gould, 1844)
Also calledLangschwanz-Hüpfmaus (deu) · Pitkähäntäaustralianhyppyrotta (fin) · Ratones Saltadores de Australia (spa) · Souris sauteuse (fra) · häntähypikäs (fin) · klokanomyš dlouhoocasá (ces) · skakuszka długoogonowa (pol) · Длиннохвостая тушканчиковая мышь (rus) · オナガホップマウス (jpn)
First described in: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol.1844 p.104
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: No living animals have either been seen or trapped since 1901, and the species is apparently extinct (Watts and Aslin, 1981). Dixon (1995 c: 578) noted that " Once widespread throughout arid and semiarid country where the vegetation included acacia and eucalypt woodlands, hummock grassland and low shrubland, the Long-tailed Hopping-mouse is now unknown and possibly extinct. " Male reproductive anatomy and spermatozoal morphology described by Breed (1990).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: Australia: Western Australia and Northern Territory (Watts and Aslin, 1981: 107; Dixon, 1995 c: 577); extinct but recorded as subfossils from South Australia (Robinson et al., 2000). " Given the wide range of locations that live animals were collected from, and the increasing number of locations where its remains have been found, this species must have once occupied much of the arid and semi-arid zones of western and central Australia. " (Ellis, 1995: 40).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
materials_examined
Type Locality: Australia, Western Australia, Moore River (as restricted by Thomas’s lectotype designation; see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988: 168).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
discussion
COMMENTS: No living animals have either been seen or trapped since 1901, and the species is apparently extinct (Watts and Aslin, 1981). Male reproductive anatomy and spermatozoal morphology is described by Breed (1990).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2438977.