Unplaced to Unplaced Synonym(s)

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• Bettongia gouldii Gray, J.E. 1843. List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 216 pp. [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] [94] [nom. nud.].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Bettongia gouldii Waterhouse, G.R. 1845. A Natural History of the Mammalia. Vol. 1, containing the Order Marsupiata or pouched animals. London : Baillière 553 pp. 20 pls. [publication date established from plates in this work; these are all dated 1845 for the Macropodidae] [219] [this work was published in parts over 1845 and 1846; as the macropodoid sections were published first, the date is 1845 and the plate is dated 1845].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 42.6.29.10 juv. skin, in scrub, 40 miles N of Adelaide, Gulf St Vincent, SA.
• Bettongia penicillata francisca Finalyson, H.H. 1957. Preliminary description of two new forms of Bettongia (Marsupialia). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 10: 552-554 [552].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA M5484 partial skull without mandible (Aitken, P.F. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum. V. Mammals. Rec. S. Aust. Mus. 17: 197–202 states that according the SAMA mammal register specimen M5484 has no locality or collection data, was found untagged in an old collection and registered in 1945, was the only original specimen and that how Finlayson knew the specimen came from St Francis Island was unknown), St Francis Is., Nuyt's Archipelago, SA (known only from a single 'pickup' skull).

  Type locality references:

  Aitken, P.F. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum. V. Mammals. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 17: 197-202 (states that according the SAMA mammal register specimen M5484 has no locality or collection data, was found untagged in an old collection and registered in 1945, was the only original specimen and that how Finlayson knew the specimen came from St Francis Island was unknown).

Ecological Descriptors

Crepuscular, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, open scrub, open woodland, solitary, subtropical, terrestrial, tussock grassland.

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