Genus Dasycercus Peters, 1875

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• Dasycercus Peters, W. 1875. in Anon. (1875). [untitled]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1875: 73 [73] [nom. nov. for Chaetocercus Krefft, 1867].
• Chaetocercus Krefft, G. 1867. On the classification of the small Dasyuridae of Australia, with descriptions of two new genera and one new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 431-435 [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 [71–84]] [434] [junior homonym of Chaetocercus Gray, 1855].

  Type species:

   Chaetocercus cristicauda Krefft, 1867 by monotypy.
• Amperta Cabrera, A. 1919. Genera Mammalium Monotremata Marsupialia. Madrid : Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 179 pp. [65] [nom. nov. for Chaetocercus Krefft, 1867].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ride, W.D.L. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988] [18] (based upon Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122 and Baverstock, P.R., Archer, M., Adams, M. & Richardson, B.J. 1982. Genetic relationships among 32 species of Australian dasyurid marsupials. pp. 641–650 in Archer, M. (ed). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 2)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Finke (FIN), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP) ; NT, Qld, WA: Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Gascoyne (GAS), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Tanami (TAN) ; SA, WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Nullarbor (NUL), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. 2008. The Mammals of Australia. Third Edition. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp.

Woolley, P.A. 2006. Studies on the crest-tailed mulgara Dasycrcus cristicauda and the brush-tailed mulgara Dasycercus blythi (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Australian Mammalogy 28: 117-120 (notes problem of deciding which of the two currently recognised species is referred to in past publications, as both species have wide distributions in arid Australia)

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