Subspecies Vombatus ursinus hirsutus (Perry, 1810)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Opossum hirsutum Perry, G. 1810. Arcana; or The Museum of Natural History. London : British Museum 1 pp. [pages are unnumbered in original work; plates have been numbered by Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1912. 'Perry's Arcana' — an overlooked work. Victorian Naturalist 24: 7–16] [text to pl. 21].
• Phascolomys mitchellii Owen, R. 1838. in Mitchell, T. (1838). Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix and of the present colony of New South Wales. London : T. & W. Boone viii 405 pp. pl. 30 figs 4-7. [362].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH M10791 fossil skull fragment, probably Wellington Valley (Wellington Caves), NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH M10792; BMNH M10793; BMNH M10794; BMNH M10793; BMNH M10794.

  Type locality references:

  Mahoney, J.A. & Ride, W.D.L. 1975. Index to the genera and species of fossil Mammalia described from Australia and New Guinea between 1838 and 1968 (including citations of type species and primary type specimens). Special Publications of the Western Australian Museum 6: 1-250.
• Phascolomys platyrhinus Owen, R. 1853. Descriptive Catalogue of the Osteological Series contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 1 350 pp. [334].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) RCSE 1841 skull only, Australia; RCSE 1842 skull only, Australia.
• Phascolomys angasii Gray, J.E. 1863. Notice of three wombats in the Zoological Gardens. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 11: 457-459 [458].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, southern Australia, specific locality unknown.
• Phascolomys setosus Gray, J.E. 1863. Notice of three wombats in the Zoological Gardens. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 11: 457-459 [459].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH skin only, southern parts of Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Gould, J. 1863. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould. [text to pl. 58].
• Phascolomys assimilis Krefft, G. 1872. Letter from Mr G. Krefft. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 3: 795-796 [796].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, unknown locality, probably NSW.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, coastal, folivore, herbivore, montane, noctidiurnal, open forest, terrestrial, territorial, woodland.

History of changes