Forrest's Leggadina
Leggadina forresti (Thomas, 1906)
Also calledRat de Forrest (fra) · Zentrale Australien-Zwergmaus (deu) · aavikkokeragenga (fin) · australoskoczek ugorowy (pol) · myš Forrestova (ces) · Мышь Форреста (rus) · ツカマウス (jpn)
First described in: Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol.1906 32 p.6
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Reviewed by Watts and Aslin (1981), Reid and Morton (1995), and Cooper et al. (2003 a).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
Distribution: Inland Australia; W half of Queensland, NW New South Wales, N South Australia, S Northern Territory, and localities in far eastern part of Western Australia (Banks and Rushton, 1998; Reid and Morton, 1995; Robinson et al., 2000; Watts and Aslin, 1981). Populations in Pilbara region, including Thevenard Isl, once considered to be L. forresti, are now referred to L. lakedownensis (Cooper et al., 2003 a; Moro et al., 1998).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
materials_examined
Type Locality: Australia, Northern Territory, Alexandria (for additional information, see Mahoney and Richardson, 1988: 158).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Inland Australia; W half of Queensland, NW New South Wales, N South Australia, S Northern Territory, and scattered in Western Australia, incl. Thevenard Isl (see map in Watts and Aslin, 1981).
Order Rodentia - Family Muridae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2438288.