Genus Potorous Desmarest, 1804

Museums

Regional Maps

• Potorous Desmarest, A.G. 1804. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle: appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique: par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs: avec des figures tirés des trois règnes de la nature. Paris : Deterville Tom. 24. [20].

  Type species:

   Didelphis murinus Cuvier, 1798 (=Didelphis tridactyla Kerr, 1792) by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   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.
• Hypsiprymnus Illiger, J.C.W. 1811. Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium, additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione Germanica. Berolini : Sumptibus C. Salfeld xvii 301 pp. [79] [nom. nov. for Potorous Desmarest, 1804].
• Potoroiis Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organises. Palermo (Italy) : Privately Published 224 pp. [Date published April to July] [55] [errore pro Potorous Desmarest, 1804].

  Secondary source:

   Neave, S.A. 1940. Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the end of 1935. M—P. London : Zoological Society of London Vol. 3 1065 pp.
• Potorus Gray, J.E. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. London Medical Repository 15: 296-310 [308] [errore pro Potorous Desmarest, 1804].

  Secondary source:

   Neave, S.A. 1940. Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the end of 1935. M—P. London : Zoological Society of London Vol. 3 1065 pp.
• Myorthius Lay, G.T. 1825. [no title]. 22 in Wilkes, J. (ed.). Encyclopaedia Londiniensis, or universal dictionary of arts, sciences and literature… Embellished by… engravings. London : Publisher unknown. [743].

  Type species:

   Didelphis tridactyla Kerr, 1792 by original designation.
• Potoroo Berthold, A.A. 1827. Latreille's Natürliche Familien des Thierreichs. Aus dem Franzosischen, mit Anmerkungen und Zusützen. Weimar : Verlage Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs Vol. x xiii, 606 pp. [50] [errore pro Potorous Desmarest, 1804].

  Secondary source:

   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.
• Patoroo Partington, C.F. 1836. The British Cyclopaedia of Natural History, combining a scientific classification of animals, plants, & minerals, &c. London Vol. 3. [12].

  Type species:

   Macropus minor Shaw, 1800 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   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.
• Hypsiprimnus Serres, P.M.T. de 1838. Essai sur les cavernes à ossemens et sur les causes qui les y ont accumulés. 3e edn Paris. 412 pp. [201] [errore pro Hypsiprymnus Illiger, 1811].

  Secondary source:

   Neave, S.A. 1939. Nomenclator Zoologicus: A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the end of 1935. London : Zoological Society of London Vol. II(D-L) 1025 pp.
• Potoroops Matschie, P. 1916. Die Verbreitung der Beuteltiere auf NeuGuinea mit einigen Bemerkungen über ihre Einteilung in Untergattungen. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 8: 259-308 +map [Date published June 1916] [264 footnote].

  Type species:

   Hypsiprymnus platyops Gould, 1844 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   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.

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 [35]
• Calaby, J. & Richardson, B.J. 1988. Mammalia. In Walton, D.W. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 5. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 5 x, 274 pp. [Date published 13-Apr-88] [54]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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