Bibliography for Pseudomys shortridgei (Thomas, 1907)

• 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
• Baynes, A., Chapman, A. & Lynam, A.J. 1987. The rediscovery, after 56 years, of the Heath Rat Pseudomys shortridgei (Thomas, 1907) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 319-322
• Breed, W.G. 1980. Further observations on spermatozoal morphology and male reproductive tract anatomy of Pseudomys and Notomys species (Mammalia: Rodentia). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 104: 51-55
• Breed, W.G. 1997. Interspecific variation of testis size and epididymal sperm numbers in Australasian rodents with special reference to the genus Notomys. Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 651-669
• Calver, M.C., King, D.R., Gardner, J.L. & Martin, G.R. 1991. Total food consumption of some native Australian small mammals in the laboratory. Australian Mammalogy 14: 139-141
• Chapman, A. & Newbey, K.R. 1995. A vertebrate fauna survey and some notes on the vegetation of the Ravensthorpe Range, Western Australia. CALMScience 1: 465-508
• Claridge, A.W. & May, T.W. 1994. Mycophagy among Australian mammals. Australian Journal of Ecology 19: 251-275
• Cockburn, A. 1978. The distribution of Pseudomys shortridgei (Muridae: Rodentia) and its relevance to that of other heathland Pseudomys. Australian Wildlife Research 5: 213-219
• Cockburn, A. 1995. Heath Rat Pseudomys shortridgei. pp. 617-618 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
• Cockburn, A., Braithwaite, R.W. & Lee, A.K. 1981. The response of the heath rat, Pseudomys shortridgei, to pyric succession: a temporally dynamic life-history strategy. Journal of Animal Ecology 50: 649-666
• Cooper, N.K. 1994. Identification of Pseudomys albocinereus, P. occidentalis, P. shortridgei, Rattus rattus and R. fuscipes using footpad patterns. Western Australian Naturalist 19: 279-283
• Cooper, N.K., Bertozzi, T., Baynes, A. & Teale, R.J. 2003. The relationship between eastern and western population of the heath rat, Pseudomys shortridgei (Rodentia: Muridae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 21: 367-370
• Lee, A.K. 1995. The Action Plan for Australian Rodents. Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency 62 pp.
• 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
• Quinlan, K., Moro, D. & Lund, M. 2004. Improving trapping success for rare species by targeting habitat types using remotely sensed data: a case study of the heath mouse (Pseudomys shortridgei) in Western Australia. Wildlife Research 31: 219-227
• Thomas, O. 1907. List of further collections of mammals from Western Australia, including a series from Bernier Island, obtained for Mr. W.E. Balston; with field-notes by the collector, Mr. G.C. Shortridge. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1906: 763-777 [Apr. 1907; 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 [76]]
• Watts, C.H.S. & Aslin, H.J. 1981. The Rodents of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xii 321 pp. 16 pls.
• Whisson, L.A. 1995. A record of the heath rat, Pseudomys shortridgei and other fauna from Dragon Rocks Nature Reserve. Western Australian Naturalist 20: 49
• Woods, R. & Kennedy, G. 1997. Circadian activity rhythms of captive heath rats (Pseudomys shortridgei). Wildlife Research 24: 459-468

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