Subspecies Notamacropus eugenii derbianus (J.E. Gray, 1837)

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• Halmaturus derbianus Gray, J.E. 1837. Description of some new or little known Mammalia, principally in the British Museum Collection. Magazine of Natural History ns 1: 577-587 [Date published Nov. 1837: publication date established from Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls [3 Nov. 1888]] [583].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 55.12.24.64 ♀ adult skin with damaged skull and no mandible, unknown locality (=WA).

  Type locality references:

  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.
• Halmaturus derbianus obscurior Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [403] [nom. nud.; proposed as a variety].
• Halmaturus emiliae 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] [90] [nom. nud., locality given as Houtman's Abrolhos, WA].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) Houtman's Abrolhos, WA.
• Halmaturus houtmanni Gould, J. 1844. Descriptions of three new species of Halmaturus and Lagorchestes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1844: 31-33 [31].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 44.2.15.10 & 46.4.4.14 ♂ adult skin (44.2.15.10) & skull (46.4.4.14), unknown locality (=Houtman's Abrolhos, WA).
  Paralectotype(s).

  Type locality references:

  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.
• Halmaturus dama Gould, J. 1844. Descriptions of three new species of Halmaturus and Lagorchestes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1844: 31-33 [32].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 44.2.15.13 & 46.4.10.4 ♀ adult skin (44.2.15.13) & damaged skull (46.4.10.4), unknown locality.
• Macropus gracilis Gould, J. 1844. Exhibition and character of a number of animals, &c. transmitted from Australia by Mr. Gilbert. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1844: 103-107 [publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [438]] [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 44.12.16.1 & 46.3.17.14 skin (44.12.1.16.1) & damaged skull (46.3.17.14), Walyema Swamps, 40 miles NE of Northam, WA (=Lake Walyormouring, WA).

  Type locality references:

  Calaby, J.H. 1954. Comments on Gilbert's note-book on marsupials. Western Australian Naturalist 4: 147-148.
• Macropus bedfordi Thomas, O. 1900. Exhibition of and remarks upon a skin of a new species of kangaroo, proposed to be called Macropus bedfordi. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900: 112.

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 00.2.19.1 ♀ skin & skull, female died in captivity 'said to have been brought from Queensland or North Australia'.
• Thylogale flindersi Jones, F.W. 1924. The flora and fauna of Nuyts Archipelago and the Investigator Group. No. 15.—The Pearson Island rat and the Flinders Island wallaby. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 48: 10-14 [11].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1925.10.8.11 ♂ skin & RCSE (Odontological Museum) A.347.91 skull, Flinders Is., Investigator Group, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA M1749 skull; SAMA M1750 skull; SAMA M1751 skull (whereabouts of others unknown).

Generic Combinations

• Notamacropus eugenii derbianus (J.E. Gray, 1837).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore, nocturnal, open forest, open heath, open scrub, terrestrial, territorial, woodland.

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