Central pebble-mound mouse

Species of rodent

Central pebble-mound mouse
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Pseudomys
Species:
P. johnsoni
Binomial name
Pseudomys johnsoni
Kitchener, 1985
Synonyms

Pseudomys laborifex Kitchener & Humphreys, 1986

The central pebble-mound mouse (Pseudomys johnsoni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae, native to Australia. The Kimberley mouse (Pseudomys laborifex) was, until recently, considered distinct from P. johnsoni, but they are now known to be conspecific.[2] It is one of the pebble-mound mice.

References

  1. ^ Aplin, K. & Woinarski, J. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Pseudomys johnsoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T18568A115144512. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T18568A22399330.en. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  2. ^ Van Dyck, S & Strahan, R 2008, The Mammals of Australia, 3rd edn, Reed New Holland, Sydney.
  • Baillie, J. 1996. Pseudomys johnsoni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  • 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.
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Extant species of subfamily Murinae (Pogonomys–Pseudomys)
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Chordate
  • Class: Mammalia
  • Superorder: Euarchontoglires
  • Order: Rodentia
  • Family: Muridae
Pogonomys
Division
Abeomelomys
  • Highland brush mouse (A. sevia)
Anisomys
  • Squirrel-toothed rat (A. imitator)
Brassomys
  • White-toothed brush mouse (B. albidens)
Chiruromys
  • Greater tree mouse (C. forbesi)
  • Broad-headed tree mouse (C. lamia)
  • Lesser tree mouse (C. vates)
Coccymys
Hyomys
(White-eared rats)
  • Western white-eared giant rat (H. dammermani)
  • Eastern white-eared giant rat (H. goliath)
Macruromys
(New Guinean rats)
  • Lesser small-toothed rat (M. elegans)
  • Eastern small-toothed rat (M. major)
Mallomys
(Giant tree rats)
  • De Vis's woolly rat (M. aroaensis)
  • Alpine woolly rat (M. gunung)
  • Subalpine woolly rat (M. istapantap)
  • Rothschild's woolly rat (M. rothschildi)
  • Bosavi woolly rat (M. sp. nov.)
  • Arfak woolly rat (M. sp. nov.)
  • Foja woolly rat (M. sp. nov.)
Mammelomys
  • Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat (M. lanosus)
  • Large mosaic-tailed rat (M. rattoides)
Pogonomelomys
(Rummler's
mosaic tailed rats)
  • Grey pogonomelomys (P. brassi)
  • Lowland brush mouse (P. bruijni)
  • Shaw Mayer's brush mouse (P. mayeri)
Pogonomys
(Prehensile-tailed rats)
  • Champion's tree mouse (P. championi)
  • D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago pogonomys (P. fergussoniensis)
  • Large tree mouse (P. loriae)
  • Chestnut tree mouse (P. macrourus)
  • Prehensile-tailed rat (P. mollipilosus)
  • Gray-bellied tree mouse (P. sylvestris)
Xenuromys
  • Mimic tree rat (X. barbatus)
Pseudomys
Division
Conilurus
  • Brush-tailed rabbit rat (C. penicillatus)
Leggadina
  • Forrest's mouse (L. forresti)
  • Lakeland Downs mouse (L. lakedownensis)
Leporillus
(Australian
stick-nest rats)
  • Greater stick-nest rat (L. conditor)
Mastacomys
  • Broad-toothed mouse (M. fuscus)
Mesembriomys
(Tree rats)
  • Black-footed tree-rat (M. gouldii)
  • Golden-backed tree-rat (M. macrurus)
Notomys
(Australian
hopping mice)
  • Spinifex hopping mouse (N. alexis)
  • Northern hopping mouse (N. aquilo)
  • Fawn hopping mouse (N. cervinus)
  • Dusky hopping mouse (N. fuscus)
  • Mitchell's hopping mouse (N. mitchellii)
Pseudomys
(Australian native mice)
  • Ash-grey mouse (P. albocinereus)
  • Silky mouse (P. apodemoides)
  • Plains rat (P. australis)
  • Bolam's mouse (P. bolami)
  • Kakadu pebble-mound mouse (P. calabyi)
  • Western pebble-mound mouse (P. chapmani)
  • Little native mouse (P. delicatulus)
  • Desert mouse (P. desertor)
  • Smoky mouse (P. fumeus)
  • Gould's mouse (P. gouldii)
  • Eastern chestnut mouse (P. gracilicaudatus)
  • Sandy inland mouse (P. hermannsburgensis)
  • Long-tailed mouse (P. higginsi)
  • Central pebble-mound mouse (P. johnsoni)
  • Western chestnut mouse (P. nanus)
  • New Holland mouse (P. novaehollandiae)
  • Western mouse (P. occidentalis)
  • Hastings River mouse (P. oralis)
  • Country mouse (P. patrius)
  • Pilliga mouse (P. pilligaensis)
  • Heath mouse (P. shortridgei)
Zyzomys
(Thick-tailed rats)
  • Common rock rat (Z. argurus)
  • Arnhem Land rock rat (Z. maini)
  • Carpentarian rock rat (Z. palatalis)
  • Central rock rat (Z. pedunculatus)
  • Kimberley rock rat (Z. woodwardi)
See also
Aethomys–Chrotomys
Colomys–Golunda
Hadromys–Maxomys
Melasmothrix–Mus
Oenomys–Pithecheir
Rattus
Stenocephalomys–Xeromys
Otomys
Others
Taxon identifiers
Pseudomys johnsoni
Pseudomys laborifex


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