List of rodents of Australia
This is the list of rodents of Australia.[1][2] Australia has a large number of indigenous rodents, all from the Family Muridae. These are presumed to have arrived within the last 4 million years from Asia.[3] The Black Rat, Brown Rat, Pacific Rat and House Mouse were accidentally introduced to Australia with European settlement, as was a small population of the Five-lined Palm Squirrel near Perth.
Old "Endemics" *
- Spinifex Hopping Mouse, Notomys alexis
- Short-tailed Hopping Mouse†, Notomys amplus - extinct
- Northern Hopping Mouse, Notomys aquilo
- Fawn Hopping Mouse, Notomys cervinus
- Dusky Hopping Mouse, Notomys fuscus
- Long-tailed Hopping Mouse†, Notomys longicaudatus - extinct
- Big-eared Hopping Mouse†, Notomys macrotis - extinct
- Mitchell's Hopping Mouse, Notomys mitchelli
- Darling Downs Hopping Mouse†, Notomys mordax - extinct
- Great Hopping Mouse†, Notomys sp. - extinct
- Ash-grey Mouse, Pseudomys albocinereus
- Silky Mouse, Pseudomys apodemoides
- Plains Rat, Pseudomys australis
- Bolam's Mouse, Pseudomys bolami
- Kakadu Pebble-mound Mouse, Pseudomys calabyi
- Western Pebble-mound Mouse, Pseudomys chapmani
- Little Native Mouse, Pseudomys delicatulus
- Desert Mouse, Pseudomys desertor
- Shark Bay Mouse, Pseudomys fieldi
- Smoky Mouse, Pseudomys fumeus
- Blue-grey Mouse†, Pseudomys glaucus - extinct
- Gould's Mouse†, Pseudomys gouldi - extinct
- Eastern Chestnut Mouse, Pseudomys gracilicaudatus
- Sandy Inland Mouse, Pseudomys hermannsburgensis
- Long-tailed Mouse, Pseudomys higginsi
- Central Pebble-mound Mouse, Pseudomys johnsoni
- Kimberley Mouse, Pseudomys laborifex
- Western Chestnut Mouse, Pseudomys nanus
- New Holland Mouse, Pseudomys novaehollandiae
- Western Mouse, Pseudomys occidentalis
- Hastings River Mouse, Pseudomys oralis
- Pilliga Mouse, Pseudomys pilligaensis
- Eastern Pebble-mound Mouse, Pseudomys patrius
- Heath Mouse, Pseudomys shortridgei
New "Endemics" *
Introduced
Notes
† Extinct
¤ Introduced
* Several of these species are not actually endemic to the country Australia, but to the Australasia ecozone, which includes Papua New Guinea and eastern Indonesia. The headings "Old Endemics" and "New Endemics" are used here in that sense (after Strahan[4]).
See also
References
- ^ Van Dyke, S. and Strahan, R. (eds.) (2008) The Mammals of Australia, Third Edition, New Holland / Queensland Museum, Brisbane ISBN 978-1-877069-25-3
- ^ Menkhorst, P. and Knight, F. (2001) A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0-19-550870-X
- ^ Bill Breed., Fred Ford.,2007 Native Mice and Rats, Australian Natural History Series, CSIRO publications ISBN 978-0-643-09166-5
- ^ Strahan, R. (ed.) (1995) The Mammals of Australia, Revised (second) Edition, Reed New Holland, Sydney ISBN 1-876334-88-6
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