Subspecies Wallabia bicolor bicolor (Desmarest, 1804)

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Subspecies Wallabia bicolor bicolor (Desmarest, 1804)

Swamp Wallaby

Kangurus bicolor Desmarest, A.G. 1804. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle: appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique: par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs: avec des figures tirés des trois règnes de la nature. Paris : Deterville Tom. 24. [page unknown].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, unknown locality.
Kangurus ualabatus Lesson, R.P. & Garnot, P. 1826. Zoologie. Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822–1825, etc. 131-161 pp. [161 pl. 7].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP Nouv. Cat. Gal. Nº 25 ♂ young adult mounted skin & damaged skull, Port Jackson, NSW.
Halmaturus lessonii Gray, J.E. 1837. Description of some new or little known Mammalia, principally in the British Museum Collection. Magazine of Natural History ns 1: 577-587 [Date published Nov. 1837: publication date established from Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls [3 Nov. 1888]] [583].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, unknown locality (=NSW?).
Type locality references:
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.
Halmaturus nemoralis Wagner, J.A. 1842. in Schreber, J.C.D. von (1774–1855) Die Säugethiere, in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen. Fortgesetzt von A. Goldfuss Supplementband von J.A. Wagner. Suppl. 3 hft 111–112. Erlangen : Voss. [114].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, NSW.
Secondary source:
Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls. [3 Nov. 1888].
Macropus ualabatus Thomas, O. & Dollman, G. 1909. On mammals from Inkerman, north Queensland, presented to the National Museum by Sir William Ingram, Bt., and the Hon. John Forrest. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1908: 788-794 pl. 42 [Date published Apr. 1909: 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 [76]] [792].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 8.8.8.65 subadult ♀ skin & skull, Inkerman, QLD.

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 [48]
Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [166] (as subspecies)

Generic Combinations

Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804).
Setonix bicolor (Desmarest, 1804).
Wallabia bicolor bicolor (Desmarest, 1804).

Introduction

See Jackson & Groves (2015) for discussion on taxonomic history and subspecies recognition.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)