Subspecies Bettongia lesueur lesueur (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

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External Links

• Hypsiprymnus lesueur Quoy, [J.R.C.] & Gaimard, [J.P.] 1824. Zoologie. In, Freycinet, L.C.D. de (ed.). Voyage autour du Monde, entrepris par ordre du Roi, exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Paris : Pillet Aîné Vol. 1 712 pp. 96 pls. [64].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP A12737 comparative anatomy collection, Dirk Hartog's Is., Shark's Bay, WA; MNHP A12738, Dirk Hartog's Is., Shark's Bay, WA.

  Secondary source:

   Beaufort, F. de 1966. Catalogue des types des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. VI Monotremata. VII Marsupialia. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 38(5): 509-553.
• Perameles harveyi Waterhouse, G.R. 1842. On two new species of marsupial animals from South Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842: 47-48 [47].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 55.12.24.416 adult skin without feet (ex Zool. Soc.), SA.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western NSW, also Dorre, Bernier, Boodie and Barrow Ils., only re-introduced pupulations on the mainland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, SA, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, cave dweller, coastal, granivore, gregarious, hummock grassland, low shrubland, nocturnal, omnivore, terrestrial, tussock grassland.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Feb-2023	Bettongia Gray, 1837	15-Apr-2015	MODIFIED
29-Oct-2010		29-Oct-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)