Species Dasyurus hallucatus Gould, 1842

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Species Dasyurus hallucatus Gould, 1842

Digul, Northern Quoll

Mustela quoll Zimmermann, E.A.W. 1783. Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüssigen Thiere, mit einer hiezu gehörigen Zoologischen Weltcharte. Leipzig : Weygandschen Buchhandlung 3 278 +32 pp. [181] [it is the 'Quoll' of Hawkesworth, J. 1773. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. Illustrated with cuts, and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. London : W. Strahan & T. Cadell Vol. 3 411–799 pp. [626]].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown (not found in BMNH or RCSE; the holotype is the specimen described as Der Quoll in Zimmermann, E.A.W. 1780. Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, und der vierfüssigen Thiere. Zweiter Band Enthält ein vollständiges Verzeichniss aller bekannten Quadrupeden. Leipzig : Weygandschen Buchhandlung 432 pp. [312];), N Queensland.
Type locality references:
Zimmermann, E.A.W. 1783. Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüssigen Thiere, mit einer hiezu gehörigen Zoologischen Weltcharte. Leipzig : Weygandschen Buchhandlung 3 278 +32 pp.
Secondary source:
Hawkesworth, J. 1773. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. Illustrated with cuts, and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. London : W. Strahan & T. Cadell Vol. 3 411-799 pp.
Dasyurus hallucatus Gould, J. 1842. Characters of a new species of Perameles, and a new species of Dasyurus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842: 41-42 [41].
Type data:

Syntype(s) BMNH 42.5.26.16 ♀ skin & skull, Port Essington, NT; BMNH 301a ♂ skull, Port Essington, NT.
Dasyurus hallucatus exilis Thomas, O. 1909. Some mammals from N.E. Kimberley, Northern Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 3: 149-152 [152].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 9.4.23.8 ♂ skin & skull, Parry Creek, near Wyndham, WA 25 ft (skin label).
Dasyurus hallucatus predator Thomas, O. 1926. The local races of Dasyurus hallucatus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 18: 543-544 [543].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 15.3.5.77 ♂ skin & skull, Utingu, Cape York Peninsula, QLD 10 m (skin label).
Dasyurus hallucatus nesaeus Thomas, O. 1926. The local races of Dasyurus hallucatus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 18: 543-544 [544].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 26.3.11.125 ♂ skin & skull, Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria, NT 50 ft (skin label).
Type locality references:
Wilkins, G.H. 1928. Undiscovered Australia, being an account of an expedition to tropical Australia to collect specimens of the rarer native fauna for the British Museum, 1923–1925. London : E. Benn 292 pp. [268].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)