Subspecies Chaeropus ecaudatus ecaudatus (Ogilby, 1838) (extinct)

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• Perameles ecaudatus Ogilby, W. 1838. On a new species of marsupial animal found by Major Mitchell on the banks of the River Murray in New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1838(6): 25-27 [25] [for a note on Mitchell's specimens recorded in Bennett's Catalogue see Mahoney, J.A. 1982. Identities of the rodents (Muridae) listed in T.L. Mitchell's 'Three expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales' (1st ed., 1838; 2nd ed., 1839). Australian Mammalogy 5: 15–36 [17]].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM PA 422 juvenile female skull (Bennett's Cat. 35), forest near Murray River, S of junction with Murrumbidgee River between Mitchell's Camp of Passage and 2nd Camp (as 'banks of the River Murray, interior of New South Wales'), VIC.

  Type locality references:

  Mitchell, T.L. 1838. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales. London : T. & W. Boone 2 ix 415 pp.

  Secondary source:

   Mahoney, J.A. 1982. Identities of the rodents (Muridae) listed in T.L. Mitchell's 'Three expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales' (1st ed., 1838; 2nd ed., 1839). Australian Mammalogy 5: 15-36.
• Chaeropus castanotis Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of two new species of Mammalia discovered in Australia by Captain George Grey, Governor of South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 9: 39-42 [8 Mar. 1842; publication date established from Mahoney, J.A. 1981. The specific name of the honey possum (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae: Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842). Australian Mammalogy 4: 135–138] [42].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 42.2.1.33 skin & skull, Murray River, SA (as scrub near the Murray River).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [21]

 

Generic Combinations

• Chaeropus ecaudatus (Ogilby, 1838). —
  Waterhouse, G.R. 1841. The natural history of Marsupialia or pouched animals. In, Jardine, W. (ed.). The Naturalist's Library. Mammalia. Edinburgh & London : W.H. Lizars & H.G. Bohn Vol. 11 xvi 323 pp. [Date published Aug. 1841] [numbered Vol. 30 in The Naturalist's Library in order of issue] [163]
• Chaeropus ecaudatus ecaudatus (Ogilby, 1838). —
  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 [8] (new combination)

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Extinct

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV)

Ecological Descriptors

Desert sand dunes, fossorial, hummock grassland, terrestrial, tussock grassland.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Chaeropus Ogilby, 1838 (extinct)	27-Oct-2020	ADDED