Subspecies Isoodon obesulus obesulus (Shaw, 1797)

• Didelphis obesula Shaw, G. 1797. The Naturalist's Miscellany: or coloured figures of natural objects, drawn and described immediately from nature. London : E. Nodder 8 pls 255-330 and accompanying text. [text to pl. 298].

  Type data:

   Neotype AM M1182 ♂ skin & skull (body in spirit), Ku-ring-gai Chase Natl. Park, N of Sydney, NSW, 33º36´S, 151º16´E, 1.5 km S of Hawkesbury River, 7.5 km from Coal and Candle Creek Road turnoff on West Head Road.
• Isoodon nauticus Thomas, O. 1922. The bandicoots of Nuyts Archipelago, S. Australia, and of Cape York, N. Queensland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 9: 677-679 [678].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 22.4.15.6 ♂ skin & skull, Franklin Ils (as Franklin's Island), Nuyts Archipelago, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Distribution References

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