Species Isoodon fusciventer (J.E. Gray, 1841)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Perameles fusciventer Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [407, locality 401].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 41.1176 skin & skull, King George Sound, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Isoodon fusciventer (J.E. Gray, 1841). —
  Travouillon, K.J. & Phillips, M.J. 2018. Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): reassessment of two species and description of a new species. Zootaxa 4378(2): 224–256 [235] (reinstated subspecies as full species, but in doing so, erroneously gave original combination of name as 'Isoodon obesulus fusciventer', instead of 'Perameles fusciventer'.)
• Isoodon obesulus fusciventer (J.E. Gray, 1841). —
  Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [86]

Introduction

Previously treated as a subspecies of I. obesulus but raised to species by Travouillon & Phillips (2018) following molecular and morphological analysis, see also Westerman et al. (2012), and Cooper et al. (2018).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

Cooper, S.J.B., Ottewell, K., MacDonald, A.J. et al. 2018. Phylogeography of southern brown and golden bandicoots: implications for the taxonomy and distribution of endangered subspecies and species. Australian Journal of Zoology 66: 379-393

Travouillon, K.J. & Phillips, M.J. 2018. Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): reassessment of two species and description of a new species. Zootaxa 4378(2): 224–256 [235]

Westerman, M., Kear, B P., Aplin, K., Meredith, R.W., Emerling, C. & Springer, M.S. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships of living and recently extinct bandicoots based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62: 97-108 [103]

History of changes