Lakeland Downs mouse

The Lakeland Downs mouse, Leggadina lakedownensis, is a small Australian rodent in the family Muridae. Wikipedia describes it as endemic to the Cape York Peninsula of northern Australia, where its natural habitat is dry savanna. It was first described in 1976 by Chris H.S. Watts, whose paper in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia presented it as a new species of murid rodent from north Queensland. The Mammal Diversity Database gives its type locality as Lakeland Downs, 110 kilometres north of Cooktown on Cape York Peninsula, and places it in the genus Leggadina, in the subfamily Murinae and the tribe Hydromyini. That database lists it as a living species with a Least Concern rating on the IUCN Red List, and records the further common names Northern Short-tailed Mouse and Tropical Short-tailed Mouse. The Animal Diversity Web groups the genus Leggadina as Forrest's mouse and the Lakeland Downs mouse.