Species Perameles bougainville Quoy & Gaimard, 1824

Museums

Regional Maps

• Perameles bougainville Quoy, [J.R.C.] & Gaimard, [J.P.] 1824. Zoologie. In, Freycinet, L.C.D. de (ed.). Voyage autour du Monde, entrepris par ordre du Roi, exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Paris : Pillet Aîné Vol. 1 712 pp. 96 pls. [56].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP Nouv. Cat. Gal. Nº 338 skull (skin not found by Beaufort, F. de 1966. Catalogue des types des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. VI Monotremata. VII Marsupialia. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris 2 38(5): 509–553 [524]), Peron Peninsula, Shark Bay, WA.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Historical records from SA, but now extinct on the mainland and found only on Bernier and Dorre Islands, Shark Bay, WA

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Crepuscular, low shrubland, nocturnal, omnivore, open heath, open scrub, predator, tall shrubland, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Stony ridges (NSW, VIC), sand plain (southwest of WA), sandhills behind beaches (Shark Bay, WA), digs shallow nesting depressions, excavates prey.

 

General References

Aitken, P. 1979. The status of endangered Australian wombats, bandicoots and the marsupial mole. pp. 61-65 in Tyler, M.J. (ed.). The Status of Endangered Australasian Wildlife. Adelaide : Royal Zoological Society of South Australia.

Freedman, L. 1967. Skull and tooth variation in the genus Perameles. Part 1: anatomical features. Records of the Australian Museum 27: 147-165 pls 16-23

Freedman, L. & Joffe, A.D. 1967. Skull and tooth variation in the genus Perameles. Part 3: metrical features of P. gunnii and P. bougainville. Records of the Australian Museum 27: 197-212 pls 32-34

Friend, J.A. & Burbidge, A.A. 1995. Western Barred Bandicoot Perameles bougainville. pp. 178-180 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Gordon, G. & Hall, L.S. 1995. Tail fat storage in arid zone bandicoots. Australian Mammalogy 18: 87-90

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [87]

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.

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp.

Ride, W.D.L. 1970. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford University Press xiv 249 pp. 62 pls.

Ride, W.D.L. & Tyndale-Biscoe, C.H. 1962. Mammals. pp. 54-97 in Fraser, A.J. (ed.). The results of an expedition to Bernier and Dorre Islands, Shark Bay, Western Australia. Fauna Bulletin No. 2. Fisheries Department Western Australia. Perth : Fisheries Department Western Australia 131 pp.

Short, J., Turner, B., Majors, C. & Leone, J. 1997. The fluctuating abundance of endangered mammals on Bernier and Dorre Islands, Western Australia - conservation implications. Australian Mammalogy 20: 53-61

Short, J.C., Richards, J.D. & Turner, B. 1998. Ecology of the western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) (Marsupialia: Peramelidae) on Dorre and Bernier Islands, Western Australia. Wildlife Research 25: 567-586

Travouillon, K.J. & Phillips, M.J. 2018. Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): reassessment of two species and description of a new species. Zootaxa 4378(2): 224–256

Wakefield, N.A. 1963. Mammal remains from the Grampians, Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 80: 130-133

Warburton, N.M. & Travouillon, K.J. 2016. The biology and palaeontology of the Peramelemorphia: a review of current knowledge and future research directions. Australian Journal of Zoology 64: 151-181

Woinarski, J.C.Z., Burbidge, A.A. & Harrison, P.L. 2014. The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012. Melbourne, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing 1038 pp. [185]

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Western Barred Bandicoot)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020	Perameles Geoffroy, 1803	14-Oct-2020	MODIFIED
04-Feb-2023	PERAMELINAE	19-Apr-2018	MODIFIED
04-Jul-2016		29-Oct-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)