Subspecies Petrogale xanthopus xanthopus J.E. Gray, 1855

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• Petrogale xanthopus Gray, J.E. 1855. Description of a new species of Petrogale. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1854: 249 pl. 314 [Apr. 1855; publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [249].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 55.1.12.1 ♂ adult skin & skull, Flinders Range, SA (on skin label).
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 55.1.12.2 ♀.
• Phalangista xanthopygus Giebel, C.G. 1874. Säugethiere : Mammalia. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs 6(V. Abtheilung) (Bd 1 Lfg. 1–5): 1-80 [47 pl. 20].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122 [44]

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

Ecological Descriptors

Crepuscular, folivore, gregarious, nocturnal, open scrub, terrestrial.

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