Species Chaeropus yirratji Travouillon, Simoes, Miguez, Brace, Brewer, Stemmer, Price, Cramb & Louys, 2019 (extinct)

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• Chaeropus yirratji Travouillon, K.J., Simões, B.F., Miguez, R.P., Brace, S., Brewer, P/, Stemmer, D., Price, G.J., Cramb, J. & Louys, J. 2019. Hidden in plain sight: reassessment of the pig-footed bandicoot, Chaeropus ecaudatus (Peramelemorphia, Chaeropodidae), with a description of a new species from central Australia, and use of the fossil record to trace its past distribution. Zootaxa 4566(1): 01-69 [31].
  Zoobank Registration Number:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C2806112-0347-4E64-B333-C287D36EE62E

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV C468 adult male, spirit specimen, with associated skull and dentaries (location also listed as Central Australia (Table 1)), Northern Territory.
  Paratype(s) NMV C5857-5861 3 ♀, 1 ♂, 1 juv. (pouch young); spirit specimens, various locations in NT & SA; SAMA various, various locations; MNHNP ZM MO-1853-824 taxidermy, North of Coongie Lakes National Park [SA]; BMNH ZD 1857.10.24.19 juvenile, partial skull and dentaries, Northern Australia
  Comment: see Table 1 for paratype locations.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Extinct. Modern distribution; arid zone of the Flinders Ranges, SA, southern half of the NT, and the deserts of Western Australia. Now extinct.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Finke (FIN), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Chaeropus Ogilby, 1838 (extinct)	18-Oct-2020	ADDED