Subspecies Mesembriomys gouldii gouldii (J.E. Gray, 1843)

Museums

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• Mus hirsutus 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]] [12] [junior homonym of Mus hirsutus Elliot, 1839].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 42.5.26.18x ♂ skin & mounted skeleton, Port Essington, NT.

  Type locality references:

  Gould, J. 1853. Remarks on the genus Hapalotis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851: 126-127 [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: 435–440 439]] [127].
• Hapalotis gouldii Gray, J.E. 1843. List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 216 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [116] [nom. nov. for Mus hirsutus Gould, 1842].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore, frugivorous, open forest, terrestrial, woodland.

History of changes