Short-tailed jumping mouse

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Short-tailed jumping mouse
Systematics
Family : Long-tailed mice (Muridae)
Subfamily : Old World Mice (Murinae)
Tribe : Hydromyini
Pseudomys group
Genre : Australian jumping mice ( Notomys )
Type : Short-tailed jumping mouse
Scientific name
Notomys amplus
Brazenor , 1936

The short-tailed jumping mouse ( Notomys amplus ) is an extinct rodent belonging to the genus of the Australian jumping mice ( Notomys ). The Aborigines called it yoontoo . It is known only from two female specimens in June 1896 in Charlotte Waters near Alice Springs (in the southeast of the Northern Territory in Australia ) of Aboriginal people were caught. Their habitat were the Gibber Plains (extensive gravel and gravel plains ) with desert grasses, low shrubs and raised sand.

The back was brown, the underside white. The tail was light brown above and white on the underside with whitish fuzz (unique in the Notomys species). She had long ears. The head-trunk length was 145 mm, the tail length 155 to 160 mm, the hind foot length 40 to 43 mm and the ear length 35 mm. It weighed between 80 and 100 g. This made it the largest species of Australian jumping mice.

literature

  • Tim Flannery , Peter Schouten : A Gap in Nature. Discovering the World's Extinct Animals. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York NY 2001, ISBN 0-87113-797-6 .
  • 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 .

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