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| Greater Stick-nest Rat | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Muridae |
| Genus: | Leporillus |
| Species: | L. conditor |
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| Leporillus conditor (Sturt, 1848) |
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The Greater Stick-nest Rat, House-building Rat (Leporillus conditor) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia on the Franklin Islands and St Peter Island in the Nuyts Archipelago, Reevesby Island, Salutation Island, Faure Island and Heirisson Prong, and a fenced off area at Roxby Downs in South Australia.[2] It was formerly widespread in semi-arid habitat on the mainland, where the soils were shallow with calcereous underlying strata.[3] Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, K. & Copley, P. (2008). Leporillus conditor. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 October 2008. Listed as Vulnerable(VU D2 v3.1)
- ^ http://www.arkive.org/greater-stick-nest-rat/leporillus-conditor/info.html
- ^ Josephine Flood (2004) Archaeology of the Dreamtime, J.B Publishing, Marleston p. 206 ISBN 1 876 62250 4
- Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D. (16 November 2005). "Superfamily Muroidea (pp. 894-1531)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13001431.
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