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Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciurognathi
Family : Muridae
Subfamily : Murinae
Species : Notomys amplus
The Short-tailed hopping mouse is listed as Extinct (EX), there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Namings for the shorttailed hopping mouse
A young / baby of a shorttailed hopping mouse is called a 'pinkie, kitten or pup'. The females are called 'doe' and males 'buck'. A shorttailed hopping mouse group is called a 'nest, colony, harvest, horde or mischief'.Countries
Australia
Facts about the short-tailed hopping mouse
The Short-tailed Hopping Mouse (Notomys amplus) is an extinct species of mouse from open stony (gibber) plains with desert grasses, low shrubs and sand ridges in the area around Charlotte Waters, near Alice Springs in Central Australia. (Full text)
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genus Notomys
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