Pseudomys
| Pseudomys Temporal range: Late Miocene - Recent
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| Sandy inland mouse (Pseudomys hermannsburgensis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Tribe: | Hydromyini |
| Genus: | Pseudomys Gray, 1832 |
| Type species | |
Pseudomys australis | |
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Pseudomys is a
intervention.Natural history
This genus contains a number of species with different habits making generalisation difficult. The overall body size varies widely, ranging from 60 to 160 mm. The tail is 60–180 mm and the weight is recorded from 12 to 90 g. They inhabit a wide variety of
Etymology
The name Pseudomys means "false mouse"[1] presumably in reference to both its similarity and uniqueness from "true mice" in the genus Mus.
Species
Genus Pseudomys - Australian native mice
- 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
- Smoky mouse, Pseudomys fumeus
- Blue-gray mouse, Pseudomys glaucus †
- Gould's mouse, Pseudomys gouldii[2]
- The Shark Bay mousewas previously described as a separate species Pseudomys fieldi, but is now considered conspecific with P. gouldii
- The
- Eastern chestnut mouse, Pseudomys gracilicaudatus
- Sandy inland mouse, Pseudomys hermannsburgensis
- Long-tailed mouse, Pseudomys higginsi
- Central pebble-mound mouse, Pseudomys johnsoni
- The Kimberley mousewas previously described as a separate species Pseudomys laborifex, but is now considered conspecific with Pseudomys johnsoni
- The
- Western chestnut mouse, Pseudomys nanus
- New Holland mouse, Pseudomys novaehollandiae
- Western mouse, Pseudomys occidentalis
- Hastings River mouse, Pseudomys oralis
- Country mouse, Pseudomys patrius
- Pilliga mouse, Pseudomys pilligaensis
- Heath mouse, Pseudomys shortridgei
- Pseudomys vandycki † (Late Pliocene of Australia)
References
- ISBN 9780868404356.
- PMID 34183409.
- Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World, Vol. 2. Johns Hopkins University Press, London.