Bibliography for Melomys burtoni (Ramsay, 1887)

• 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., Adams, M. & Gelder, M. 1980. Chromosomal and electrophoretic studies of Australian Melomys (Rodentia: Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 28: 553-574
• 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
• Begg, R., Walsh, B., Woerle, F. & King, S. 1983. Ecology of Melomys burtoni, the grassland melomys (Rodentia: Muridae) at Cobourg Peninsula, N.T. Australian Wildlife Research 10: 259-267
• Braithwaite, R.W. 1989. Shelter selection by a small mammal community in the wet-dry tropics of Australia. Australian Mammalogy 12: 55-59
• 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
• Finlayson, H.H. 1943. A new Melomys from Queensland with notice of two other Queensland rats. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 66: 243-247 pls 8-9
• Goosem, M, & Marsh, H. 1997. Fragmentation of a small-mammal community by a powerline corridor through tropical rainforest. Wildlife Research 24: 613-629
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• Kellogg, R. 1945. A new Australian naked-tailed rat (Melomys). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 58: 69-71
• Kemper, C.M., Kitchener, D.J., Humphreys, W.F., How, R.A., Bradley, A.J. & Schmitt, L.H. 1987. The demography and physiology of Melomys spp. (Rodentia: Muridae) in the Mitchell Plateau area, Kimberley, Western Australia. Journal of Zoology, London 212: 553-562
• Kerle, J.A. 1995. Grassland Melomys Melomys burtoni. pp. 632-634 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
• Knox, E. 1978. A note on the identification of Melomys species (Rodentia: Muridae) in Australia. Journal of Zoology, London 185: 276-277
• Lönnberg, E. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. II. Mammals from Queensland. 1. List of mammals. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(2): 3-11 [18 Jan. 1916]
• 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
• Ramsay, E.P. 1887. Description of three new species of mammals from north west Australia. Abstr. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. for August 31st, 1887: vi.
• Ramsay, E.P. 1887. Description of two new species of marsupials (Perameles and Antechinus) and of a new species of Mus (M. burtoni), from the neighbourhood of Derby, N.W.A. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2: 551-553 pl. 17
• Ride, W.D.L. 1970. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford University Press xiv 249 pp. 62 pls.
• Robertson, L.N., Story, P.G., Wilson, J. & Egan, B.T. 1995. Integrated pest management for rodents in sugarcane. Proceedings of the 1995 Conference of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists held at Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 2nd May to 5th May 1995. 70-74 pp.
• Smith, G.C. 1985. Biology and habitat usage of sympatric populations of the fawn-footed melomys (Melomys cervinipes) and the grassland melomys (Melomys burtoni) (Rodentia: Muridae). The Australian Zoologist 21: 551-563
• Taylor, J.M. & Horner, B.E. 1970. Reproduction in the mosaic-tailed rat, Melomys cervinipes (Rodentia: Muridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 18: 171-184
• Thomas, O. 1913. Some new species of Uromys. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 12: 212-217
• Thomas, O. 1924. Some new Australasian Muridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 13: 296-299
• Troughton, E. le G. 1935. Five new rats of the genera Hydromys and Melomys from northern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 251-258
• Troughton, E. le G. & Le Souef, A.S. 1929. New forms of mosaic-tailed rats (Melomys and Uromys) from Hinchinbrook Island, Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 6: 96-99
• 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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