Species Dasyurus viverrinus (Shaw, 1800)

Eastern Quoll, nr Scamander, Tasmania

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Species Dasyurus viverrinus (Shaw, 1800)

Luaner, Eastern Quoll

Didelphis maculata Anon. 1791. In Phillip, A. Voyage du Gouverneur Phillip à Botany-Bay, avec une description de l'établissement des Colonies du Port Jackson et de l'Île Norfolk; faite sur des papiers authentiques, obtenus des divers Departemens, auxquels on a ajouté les journaux des Lieutenans Shortland, Watts, Ball, et du Capitaine Marshall, avec un récit de leurs nouvelles découvertes. Traduit de l'Anglais. Paris : Buisson iv 443 pp. [186] [name provided in 'Note du traducteur' who is anonymous].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, neighbourhood of Port Jackson, NSW.
Type locality references:
Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries embellished with fifty five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from actual surveys, & the plans and views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. London : J. Stockdale lxxiv 298 pp. [276].
Didelphis viverrina Shaw, G. 1800. General Zoology or systematic natural history. Quadrupeds. London : G. Kearsley Vol. 1Pt 2 i-viii pp. 249-552. [491].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown (not found in BMNH or RCSE; the holotype is the specimen described and figured under the name Tapoa Tafa by Anon. (Hunter, J.) in White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. London : J. Debrett xviii 299 pp. [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] [285 pl 59 The Spotted (Tapoa Tafa)]), Sydney region, NSW (as New South Wales).
Type locality references:
White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. London : J. Debrett xviii 299 pp. [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] [269].
Dasyurus maugei Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. 1803. Note sur les espèces du genre dasyure. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris 3(81): 258-259 [259].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not found in MNHP), WA or south TAS.
Type locality references:
Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. 1804. Mémoire sur les espèces du genre Dasyure. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 3: 353-363; Freycinet, L. 1815. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, Exécuté sur les Corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la Goelette le Casuarina, Pendant les Années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; sous le commandement du Capitaine de Vaisseau N. Baudin. Navigation et géographie. Paris : Imprimerie Royale xvi 578 pp. [xii].
Dasyurus guttatus Desmarest, A.G. 1804. Article Dasyure Gutté (Dasyurus guttatus Nob.) p. 10 in, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'agriculture et à l'économie rurale et domestique: par une Société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs: avec des figures tirées des trois règnes de la nature. 24 pp. [10].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not found in MNHP), Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
Didelphis alboguttata Burmeister, H. 1854. Systematische Uebersicht der Thiere Brasiliens, welche während einer Reise durch die Provinzen von Rio de Janeiro und Minas Geraës gesammelt oder beobachtet wurden. Erster theil, Säugethiere (Mammalia). Berlin : G. Reimer x 342 pp. [340] [as Did. alboguttata].
Type data:
Holotype MNRJ, Australia.
Type locality references:
Goeldi, E.A. 1894. Critical gleanings on the Didelphyidae of the Serra dos Orgãos, Brazil. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 457-467 [466].

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 [12-13]

Generic Combinations

Nasira viverrina (Shaw, 1800).
Dasyurus viverrinus (Shaw, 1800).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Now probably confined to Tas. and maybe a few locations in NSW.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)