The Darling Downs bouncy mouse ( Notomys mordax ) is an extinct rodent belonging to the genus of Australian bouncy mice ( Notomys ). The Aborigines called them payi . She is known only from a single skull found in Darling Downs in southeast Queensland some time before 1846 . The skull suggests that it was either closely related or possibly identical to the Mitchell's jumping mouse ( Notomys mitchellii ). However, the molars were longer, the incisors were wider and, unlike most other mice, there was an additional pre- molar . Recently, a number of subfossil skulls from Notomys specimens have been found in Coonabarabran in northeast New South Wales . They had smaller teeth than N. mitchellii from Victoria and South Australia . However, it is still unclear which species they belong to. The extinction of the Darling Downs bouncy mouse may have been a result of the introduction of cattle herds, which greatly changed their habitat.
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Peter Menkhorst: A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia. Illustrated by Frank Knight. Oxford University Press, South Melbourne et al. 2001, ISBN 0-19-550870-X .
Guy G. Musser , Michael D. Carleton : Superfamily Muroidea. In: Don E. Wilson , DeeAnn M. Reeder (Eds.): Mammal Species of the World. A taxonomic and geographic Reference. Volume 2. 3rd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2005, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4 , pp. 894-1531.
