Blue-gray mouse

Blue-grey mouse
Conservation status
Extinct  (1956)  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Muridae
Genus:	Pseudomys
Species:	†P. glaucus
Binomial name
†Pseudomys glaucus Thomas, 1910

The blue-gray mouse (Pseudomys glaucus) is an Australian rodent species that is only known by a few specimens found in Eastern Australia, and since presumed to have become extinct.

Taxonomy

The species was described by Oldfield Thomas in 1910. ^[2] The number of specimens identified as Pseudomys glaucus is limited to three, two found in the northeastern state of Queensland and a single specimen collected to the south at Cryon in New South Wales.

Description

A species of Pseudomys , these Australian rodents resembled the familiar house mouse (Mus musculus). The body of P. glaucus was robust with fine and dense fur, white at the underside and a pale blue-grey colour over the upperparts of the fur. The measurement of each of the three known specimens was 95 millimetres for the head and body combined, with a white-haired tail that was slightly longer (100 mm.) The weight range was 25 to 30 grams. ^[3]

References

1. Burbidge, A.A.; Woinarski, J. (2016). "Pseudomys glaucus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T18564A22399634. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T18564A22399634.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Thomas, O. (1910). "New Australian Muridae of the genus Pseudomys". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 8 (6). Taylor and Francis, Ltd.: 607–610 [608].
3. Menkhorst, P.W.; Knight, F. (2011). A field guide to the mammals of Australia (3rd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press. p. 198. ISBN   978-0-19-557395-4.