Short-tailed hopping mouse

phylum	Chordata	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. It weighed 80 grams. The last record is from June 1896. Only two complete specimens were collected, probably from Aborigines. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Old World rats and mice‬
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Rodentia
family	Muridae
genus	Notomys
species	N. amplus

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  Yowies Forgotten Friends 19 Short-Tailed Hopping Mouse