| 词条 | Western pebble-mound mouse |
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| name = Western pebble-mound mouse | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = [1] | genus = Pseudomys | species = chapmani | authority = D.J. Kitchener, 1980 | synonyms = }} Western pebble-mound mouse or Ngadji, species Pseudomys chapmani, is a burrowing and mound building rodent in the family Muridae. They are occur in the Pilbara, a remote region in the northwest of Australia. TaxonomyThe species was described by D.J. Kitchener in 1980.[2] The population was formerly assumed to be species Pseudomys hermannsburgensis. The description is based on a specimen that was collected at Mt Meharry (West Angelas Mine Site).[3] The specific honours the biologist Andrew Chapman, who worked at the mammal department of the W.A. Museum.[2] The common name according to the Census of Australian Vertebrates (ABRS 2001) is "Pebble-mound Mouse",[3] a name given to sister taxon P. hermannsburgensis and so appended with 'Western' by the author of the species and others in later publications.[4] The earlier name of 'sandy inland mouse' became applied in treatments as P. hermannsburgensis. The extant name of the animal in the language of its region is Ngadji.[5] The type specimen was collected by J.N. Dunlop in 1979, using a pit trapping method. A revision by Kitchener of specimens in the collection at the W.A. museum revealed morphological differences, observed in the Dunlop specimen, in previous collections of P. hermannsburgensis, including those made at Woodstock Homestead in the Pilbara.[2] DescriptionThe colour of the mouse's pelt is buff brown, darker to blackish at the head. The paws are white beneath and buff above, The underparts are white, up to the throat and mouth. The species resembles the related P. hermannburgensis, the morphology is distinguished by smaller ears, feet and tail. The feet do not exceed 16 millimetres in length.[3] HabitatIt is native to and found only in Western Australia, where it lives in pebbly soils in arid tussock grassland and acacia woodland. Like other pebble-mound mice, the western pebble-mound mouse creates its own microhabitat by scattering a mound of pebbles around its burrows. The air temperature around the pebbles warms up faster in the morning than the pebbles themselves, causing the formation of small droplets of dew by condensation. The vegetation at the preferred habitat, hummock grasslands, is Triodia basedowii, Cassia. Acacia and Ptilotus, and it is associated with eroding sands at natural features which expose small stones (pebbles).[6] The species at the type location were the spinifex Triodia basedowii and T. pungens, Acacia aneura, and Cassia desolata and C. helmsii, these cassias intermittently occur with Eucalyptus gamophylla and E. oleosa at the surrounding gibber plain.[2] StatusThe species occurs as disjunct populations within its range. The range is subject to changes in land use resulting in loss of habitat, and noted as contracting.[6] According to the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the species is restricted to the non-coastal, central and eastern parts of the Pilbara, Western Australia. It was formerly more widespread. References1. ^{{cite journal |author=Burbidge, A.A. |title=Pseudomys chapmani |journal=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |volume=2016 |page=e.T42648A115198963 |publisher=IUCN |year=2016 |url=http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/42648/0 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T42648A22398949.en |access-date=9 November 2017}} 2. ^1 2 3 Pseudomys chapmani Kitchener, D.J. 1980. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52817098#page/423/mode/1up A new species of Pseudomys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Western Australia]. Records of the Western Australian Museum 8:3 405-414 [405]. 3. ^. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Pebble-mound Mouse) 4. ^Start, A.N. & Kitchener, D.J. 1995. Western Pebble-mound Mouse Pseudomys chapmani. pp. 590-592 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp. 5. ^Start, A.N., Anstee, S.D. & Endersby, M. 2000. A review of the biology and conservation status of the Ngadji, Pseudomys chapmani Kitchener, 1980 (Rodentia: Muridae). CALMScience 3: 125-147 6. ^1 2 3 {{cite encyclopedia | last = Kitchener | first = D.J. | author-link = D.J. Kitchener | editor-last = Strahan | editor-first = Ronald | editor-link = Ronald Strahan | encyclopedia = Complete book of Australian mammals | title = Pebble-mound Mouse Pseudomys chapmani | trans-title = | url = | access-date = | language = | edition = | date = | year = 1983 | publisher = Angus and Robertson | series = Australian Museum: the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife | volume = | location = Sydney, | id = | isbn = 0207144540 | oclc = | doi = | pages = 416–17 | quote = | ref = }}
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