Long-eared mouse

The long-eared mouse, Pseudomys auritus, is an extinct Australian rodent of the family Muridae, in the tribe Hydromyini and the genus Pseudomys. Oldfield Thomas described it in 1910 from a specimen, now the holotype in the Natural History Museum in London, collected at Lake Albert in South Australia. The Mammal Diversity Database records its status as extinct, with the Australasian realm and Australia as its range, and gives its IUCN Red List status as Extinct. The database notes that the species was split from Pseudomys australis, and that a 2020 proposal to divide Pseudomys into many subgenera is not followed pending further investigation.