Pseudomys higginsi

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 763 meters (0 to 2,503 feet).[1]

Ecology: This species is reaches its highest densities in subalpine rocky screes and boulder fields (Driessen 2008). It can also be found in southern beech (Nothofagus spp. ) temperate moist forest , and may be found in wet schlerophyll forest and deep fern gullies. Females annually give birth to one or two litters , of three or four young (Driessen 2008).[2].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     6     Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs , mountain peaks)   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 02-May-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Pseudomys

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 27 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. albocinereus (Ash-Grey Mouse) · P. apodemoides (Silky Mouse) · P. australis (Eastern Mouse) · P. bolami (Bolam's Mouse) · P. calabyi (Kakadu Pebble Mouse) · P. chapmani (Western Pebble Mouse) · P. delicatulus (Delicate Mouse) · P. desertor (Desert Mouse) · P. fieldi (Alice Springs Mouse) · P. fumeus (Smokey Mouse) · P. fuscus (Broad-Toothed Mouse) · P. glaucus (Australian Native Mice) · P. gouldii (Gould's Mouse) · P. gracilicaudatus (Eastern Chestnut Mouse) · P. hermannsburgensis (Sandy Inland Mouse) · P. higginsi (Long-Tailed Mouse) · P. johnsoni (Central Pebble Mouse) · P. laborifex (Kimberly Mouse) · P. nanus (Western Chestnut Mouse) · P. nanus nanus (Western Chestnut Mouse) · P. novaehollandiae (New Holland Mouse) · P. occidentalis (Western Mouse) · P. oralis (Hastings River Mouse) · P. patrius (Eastern Pebble Mouse) · P. pilligaensis (Pilliga Mouse) · P. praeconis (Shark Bay Mouse) · P. shortridgei (Heath Mouse)

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Further Reading

• Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 36.
• Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Brisbane, Queensland Museum, 1912- url p. 31.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 111, p. 112.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 130, p. 147, p. 206, p. 215, p. 216, p. 67, p. 78.
• The Australian zoologist. Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales url p. 286.
• The families and genera of living rodents / by J.R. Ellerman; with a list of named forms (1758-1936) by R.W. Hayman and G.W.C.Holt. London: British Museum, 1941. url p. 224.

Notes

Contributors

• Baillie, J. 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Baillie, J. 1996. Pseudomys higginsi. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Menkhorst, P. & Dickman, C. 2008. Pseudomys higginsi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 14, 2008:

• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 108650
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-585499
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13837762
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 585499
• IUCN ID: 237223
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 6932

Footnotes

1. Mean = 279.570 meters (917.224 feet), Standard Deviation = 342.570 based on 7 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Menkhorst, P. & Dickman, C. 2008. Pseudomys higginsi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]

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