Bibliography for Conilurus penicillatus (Gould, 1842)

• ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study.
• Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S., Adams, M. & Cole, S.R. 1981. Genetical relationships among Australian rodents (Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 289-303
• Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S. & Hogarth, J.T. 1977. Chromosome evolution in Australian rodents I. The Pseudomyinae, the Hydromyinae and the Uromys/Melomys Group. Chromosoma (Berlin) 61: 95-125
• Braithwaite, R.W. & Muller, W.J. 1997. Rainfall, groundwater and refuges: predicting extinctions of Australian tropical mammal species. Australian Journal of Ecology 22: 57-67
• Breed, W.J. & Sarafis, V. 1979. On the phylogenetic significance of spermatozoal morphology and male reproductive tract anatomy in Australian rodents. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 103: 127-135
• Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. & Wells, A. 2006. CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing iv 162 pp.
• Firth, R.S.C. 2003. Activity range and den trees of the brush-tailed rabbit-rat on Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory, Australia. pp. 99-102 in Singleton, G.R., Hinds, L.A., Krebs, C.K. & Spratt, D.M. (eds). Rats, Mice and People: Rodent Biology and Management. Canberra : Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
• Firth, R.S.C. 2004. Carpet python (Morelia spilota variegata) predation on the brush-tailed rabbit-rat (Conilurus penicillatu melibus) on Melville Island, Northern Territory. Herpetofauna 34(2): 105-106
• Firth, R.S.C., Jeffrey, E., Woinarski, J.C.Z. & Noske, R.A. 2005. The diet of the brush-tailed rabbit-rat (Conilurus penicillatus) from the monsoonal tropics of the Northern Territory, Australia. Wildlife Research 32: 517-523
• Gould, J. 1842. On some new species of Australian mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842: 10-14 [publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [438]]
• Gould, J. 1858. On four new species of Mus and one of Hapalotis from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1857: 241-243 [publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [440]]
• Gould, J. 1858. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 10.
• Gray, J.E. 1844. Beasts. pls18-22, 25-29 in Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (1844–1875). (eds). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843. Mammalia, birds. London : E.W. Janson Vol. 1. [plate 21, 28 and 29, three of ten Beasts plates (18–22, 25–29) that illustrate Gray, J.E. 1875. Miscellanea. pp. 12a–12d in Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (1844–1875) (eds). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843. Mammalia, birds. London : E.W. Janson Vol. 1; the plates do not have a date printed on them; Tomes, R.F. 1857. On the species of bats inhabiting New Zealand. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1857: 134–142 pls 53–54 [138], Dobson, G.E. 1975. On the genus Scotophilus, with description of a new genus and species allied thereto. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 368–373 [372] and Tate, G.H.H. 1941. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 40 Notes on vespertilionid bats of the subfamilies Miniopterinae, Murininae, Kerivoulinae, and Nyctophilinae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 78: 567–597 [595] record the date of Beasts plates 20 (Dobson), 21 (Tate) and 22 (Tomes) as 1844; in contrast to Tomes op. cit., Dobson op. cit. and Tate op. cit., Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls [3 Nov. 1888] [277] writes that the Beasts plates were prepared in 1845, but although they were seen privately and quoted by several authors long before, their 'real publication' only took place in 1875; Saunders, J. 1875. List of the Books, Memoirs, and Miscellaneous Papers by Dr. John Edward Gray, F.R.S. with a few Historical Notes. London : Taylor & Francis (Printers) 58 pp. [19] records Gray's work no. 278 as 'Figures of new species of Australian Mammalia. Zool. Ereb. and Terror, 1844, 4 to.' and on the basis of this information the publication date of Beasts plate 21, 28 and 29 is taken by Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 5 Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [155, 169], as 1844; early authors who cite Beasts plates include Gunn, R.C. 1852. A list of the mammals indigenous to Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of. Van Diemen's Land 2: 77–90 [Beasts plates 19, 21, 25 cited on pp. 78, 82], Gould, J. 1858. The Mammals of Australia. Pt 10. London : J. Gould (Beasts plate 20 cited on unnumbered page of text entitled Scotophilus greyi, Gray. Grey's Scotophilus.) and Peters, W. 1861. Über die Chiropterengattung Nyctophilus. Phys. Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1860: 123–137 1 pl. (Beasts plate 21 cited on p. 125); Saunders, J. op. cit., p. 1 states that the List of the Books, Memoirs, and Miscellaneous Papers by Dr. John Edward Grey was commenced by Gray himself in the latter part of 1871 and the papers which he (Saunders) added were those published in 1874–75; Gray died on 7th March, 1875; Gould's collector in Western Australia in 1843 was J. Gilbert; a label attached to the skin of the holotype has the date 20th March, 1843 inscribed on it and this is three days later than the date that Whittell, H.M. 1942. A review of the work of John Gilbert in Western Australia. Part III. Emu 41: 289–305 [295] gives for Gilbert's return to Fremantle from Houtman Abrolhos, W. Australia]
• Kemper, C.M. 1995. Brush-tailed Tree-rat Conilurus penicillatus. pp. 553-554 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
• Kemper, C.M. & Schmitt, L.H. 1988. Inheritance of tail colour and white-spotting in Conilurus penicillatus (Muridae). Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 41: 489-494
• Kemper, C.M. & Schmitt, L.H. 1992. Morphological variation between populations of the brushtailed tree rat (Conilurus penicilllatus) in northern Australia and New Guinea. Australian Journal of Zoology 40: 437-452
• Kitchener, D.J., Keller, L.E., Chapman, A., McKenzie, N.L., Start, A.N. & Kenneally, K.F. 1981. Observations on Mammals of the Mitchell Plateau area, Kimberley, Western Australia. pp. 123–169 in, Biological Survey of Mitchell Plateau and Admiralty Gulf, Kimberley, Western Australia. Papers resulting from a joint field expedition to Mitchell Plateau, Kimberley, by the Western Australia Museum, Perth, and the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A., 1976–1977. 274 pp.
• Mahoney, J.A. 1974. The Australian rodent specimens (Muridae) of J.E. Gray's List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum (1843). Australian Mammalogy 1: 231-242
• Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988]
• Morrissey, B.L. & Breed, W.G. 1982. Variation in external morphology of the glans penis of Australian native rodents. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 495-502
• Strahan, R. (ed.) 1995. The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney, NSW : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
• Taylor, J.M. & Horner, B.E. 1971. Reproduction in the Australian tree-rat Conilurus penicillatus (Rodentia: Muridae). CSIRO Wildlife Research 16: 1-9
• Thomas, O. 1921. Notes on Australasian rats, with a selection of lectotypes for Australasian Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 8: 425-433
• Watts, C.H.S. 1982. Australian hydromyine rodents: maintenance of captive colonies. pp. 180-184 in Evans, D.D. (ed.). The Management of Australian Mammals in Captivity. Proceedings of the Scientific Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society, Healesville, Victoria, February 1979. Melbourne : Zoological Board of Victoria 194 pp.
• Watts, C.H.S. & Aslin, H.J. 1981. The Rodents of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xii 321 pp. 16 pls.

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