Subspecies Pseudocheirus peregrinus convolutor (Schinz, 1821)

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• Phalangista convolutor Schinz, H.R. 1821. Das Tierreich eingeheilt nach dem Bau der Thiere als Grundlage ihrer Naturgeschichte und der Vergleichenden Anatomie von dem Herrn Ritter von Cuvier Staatsgrath von Fransreich und beständiger Secretär der Academie der Wissenschaften U.S.W. Aus dem Französischen frey übersetzt und mit vielen Zusätzen versehen. Säugethiere und Vögel. Stuttgart : J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. [258] [Balantia convolutor Oken, 1816 upon which Schinz's name is undoubtedly based, is not available, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 417. Rejection for nomenclatorial purposes of volume 3 (Zoologie) of the work by Lorenz Oken entitled Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte published in 1815–1816. Opin. Decl. Int. Comm. Zool. Nomen. 14: 1–42].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Adventure Bay, TAS.

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 417. Rejection for nomenclatorial purposes of volume 3 (Zoologie) of the work by Lorenz Oken entitled Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte published in 1815–1816. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 14: 1-42.
• Phalangista viverrina Ogilby, W. 1838. (untitled abstract). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1837: 131 [14 June 1838].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1855.12.24.213 ♀ adult skin & skull, TAS (as Van Diemen's Land).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Tate, G.H.H. 1945. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 54 The marsupial genus Pseudocheirus and its subgenera. American Museum Novitates 1287: 1-30 [11 June 1945].
• Pseudochirus cooki bassianus Le Souef, A.S. 1929. Notes on some mammals from Bass Strait Islands, including a new subspecies of Pseudochirus. The Australian Zoologist 5: 329-332 [24 Mar. 1929] [330].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM M4450 ♂ adult skin & skull, Flinders Is., Bass Strait.
• Phalangista incana Schinz, H.R. 1844. Systematisches vertzeichniss aller bis jetzt bekannten Säugethiere, oder Synopsis mammalium nach dem Cuvier'schen System. Solothurn : Publisher unknown 1 pp. [530].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, unknown locality, said to be TAS.

  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.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, florivore, folivore, nocturnal, open forest, subtropical, tall open forest, woodland.

History of changes