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Leporillus Thomas 1906

Description

Leporillus Thomas, 1906. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 17:83.

TYPE SPECIES: Hapalotis apicalis Gould, 1853.

COMMENTS: Member of the Australian Old Endemics (Musser, 1981c:167), which includes the Conilurini where Baverstock (1984) listed Leporillus. Mahoney and Richardson (1988) cataloged taxonomic, distributional, and biological references.

Notes

Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 604, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098

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Biodiversity

Family
Muridae
Genus
Leporillus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Thomas
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Leporillus Thomas, 1906 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993

References

  • Musser, G. G. 1981 c. The giant rat of Flores and its relatives east of Borneo and Bali. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 169: 67 - 176.
  • Baverstock, P. R. 1984. Australia's living rodents: A restrained explosion. Pp. 913 - 919, in Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia (M. Archer and G. Clayton, eds.). Hesperian Press, Carlisle, W. A., Australia, 1203 pp.
  • Mahoney, J. A., and B. J. Richardson. 1988. Muridae. Pp. 154 - 192, in Zoological catalogue of Australia. Mammalia (J. L. Bannister, et. al.). Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 5: 1 - 274.