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Species Perameles pallescens Thomas, 1923

Introduction

Perameles pallescens was raised from subspecies to species level by Travouillon (2016).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Townsville to Ravenshoe.

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Beaufort, F. de 1966. Catalogue des types des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. VI Monotremata. VII Marsupialia. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 38(5): 509-553

Brunner, H. & Coman, B. 1974. The Identification of Mammalian Hair. Melbourne : Inkata Press ix 176 pp.

Chambers, L.K. & Dickman, C.R. 2002. Habitat selection of the long-nosed bandicoot, Perameles nasuta (Mammalia: Peramelidae), in a patchy urban environment. Austral Ecology 27: 334-342

Claridge, A.W. 1993. Fungal diet of the long-nosed bandicoot (Perameles nasuta) in south-eastern Australia. Victorian Naturalist 110: 86-91

Close, R.L. 1984. Rates of sex chromosome loss during development in different tissues of the bandicoots Perameles nasuta and Isoodon macrourus (Marsupialia: Peramelidae). Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 37: 53-61

Harding, H.R., Carrick, F.N. & Shorey, C.D. 1979. Special features of sperm structure and function in marsupials. pp. 289-303 in Fawcett, D.W. & Bedford, J.M. (eds). The Spermatozoon. Maturation, motility, surface-properties and comparative aspects. Baltimore : Urban & Schwarzenberg.

Harrison, J.L. 1962. Mammals of Innisfail. 1. Species and distribution. Australian Journal of Zoology 10: 45-83

Harrison, J.L. 1962. The food of some Innisfail mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 73: 37-43

Hayman, D.L. & Martin, P.G. 1974. Mammalia 1: Monotremata and Marsupialia. Animal Cytogenetics. Chordata. Berlin : Gebrüder Borntraeger Vol. 4 110 pp.

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

Lyne, A.G. 1982. Observations on skull growth and eruption of teeth in the marsupial bandicoot Perameles nasuta (Marsupialia: Peramelidae). Australian Mammalogy 5: 113-126

Lyne, A.G. 1982. The bandicoots Isoodon macrourus and Perameles nasuta: their maintenance and breeding in captivity. pp. 47-52 in Evans, D.D. (ed.). The Management of Australian Mammals in Captivity. Proceedings of the Scientific Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society, Healesville, Victoria, February 1979. Melbourne : Zoological Board of Victoria 194 pp.

Lyne, A.G. & Hollis, D.E. 1983. Observations on Graafian follicles and oocytes during lactation and after the removal of pouch young in the marsupials Isoodon macrourus and Perameles nasuta. American Journal of Anatomy 166: 41-61

Mahoney, J.A. & Ride, W.D.L. 1988. Peramelidae. pp. 36-42 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service 274 pp.

McGee, P.A. & Baczocha, N. 1994. Sporocarpic Endogonales and Gomales in the scats of Rattus and Perameles. Mycological Research 98: 246-249

Moyle, D.I., Hume, I.D. & Hill, D.M. 1995. Digestive performance and selective digesta retention in the long-nosed bandicoot, Perameles nasuta, a small omnivorous marsupial. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 164: 552-560

Opie, A., Gullan, P. & Manssergh, I. 1990. Prediction of the geographic range and habitat-preferences of Isoodon obesulus and Perameles nasuta in Gippsland. pp. 327-334 in Seebeck, J.H., Brown, P.R., Wallis, R.L. & Kemper, C.M. (eds). Bandicoots and Bilbies. Chipping Norton : Surrey Beatty & Sons 392 pp.

Padykula, H.A. & Taylor, J.M. 1977. Uniqueness of the bandicoot chorioallantoic placenta (Marsupialia: Peramelidae) cytological and evolutionary interpretations. pp. 303-323 in Calaby, J.H. & Tyndale-Biscoe, C.H. (eds). Reproduction and Evolution. Proceedings of the fourth symposium on comparative biology of reproduction, held in Canberra, December 1976. Canberra : Australian Academy of Science.

Reddell, P., Spain, A.V. & Hopkins, M. 1997. Dispersal of spores of mycorrhizal fungi in scats of native mammals in tropical forests of northeastern Australia. Biotropica 29: 184-192

Scott, L.K., Hume, I.D. & Dickman, C.R. 1999. Ecology and population biology of long-nosed bandicoots (Perameles nasuta) at North Head, Sydney Harbour National Park. Wildlife Research 26: 805-821

Stodart, E. 1966. Management and behaviour of breeding groups of the marsupial Perameles nasuta Geoffroy in captivity. Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 611-623

Stodart, E. 1977. Breeding and behaviour of Australian bandicoots. pp. 179-191 in Stonehouse, B. & Gilmore, D. (eds). The Biology of Marsupials. London : Macmillan.

Stodart, E. 1995. Long-nosed Bandicoot Perameles nasuta. pp. 184-185 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Tate, G.H.H. 1948. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 60 Studies in the Peramelidae (Marsupialia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 92: 313-346

Travouillon, K.J. 2016. Investigating dental variation in Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804, with morphological evidence to raise P. nasuta pallescens Thomas, 1923 to species rank. Zootaxa 4114(4): 351-392

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
04-Feb-2023 PERAMELIDAE 18-Sep-2023 MODIFIED
04-Jul-2016 PERAMELIDAE 04-Jul-2016 MODIFIED
04-Jul-2016 29-Oct-2010 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)