Subspecies Phascogale tapoatafa tapoatafa (Meyer, 1793)

• Dasyurus tafa White, J. 1803. in Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. Note sur les espèces du genre dasyure. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris 3(81): 258-259 [159 (should be 259)].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (not found in RCSE or BMNH; 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] [281–284 pl 58]; preparation 3758 of Owen, R. 1841. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of Comparative Anatomy Contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Products of generation. London : R. & J.E. Taylor 5 iv +xxxvii 284 pp. [209] is part of the holotype specimen), 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].
• Viverra tapoatafa Meyer, F.A.A. 1793. Systematisch-Summarische Uebersicht der neuesten Zoologischen Entdeckungen in Neuholland und Afrika. Nebst zwey andern Zoologischen Abhandlungen. Leipzig : Dykischen Buchhandlung 184 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] [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (not found in RCSE or BMNH; 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] [281–284 pl 58]; preparation 3758 of Owen, R. 1841. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of Comparative Anatomy Contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Products of generation. London : R. & J.E. Taylor 5 iv +xxxvii 284 pp. [209] is part of the holotype specimen), Sydney region, NSW (as New South Wales).

  Type locality references:

  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 xvii 335 pp. [269].
• Didelphis penicillata Shaw, G. 1800. General Zoology or systematic natural history. Quadrupeds. London : G. Kearsley Vol. 1Pt 2 i-viii pp. 249-552. [502].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (not found in BMNH or RCSE), Australia (not given in original description); the holotype is not in existence according to Thomas (1888: 296).

  Type locality references:

  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].

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 [7-8]

Generic Combinations

• Phascogale tapoatafa tapoatafa (Meyer, 1793).
• Phascogale tapoatafa (Meyer, 1793).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, predator, subtropical, woodland.

History of changes