Subspecies Isoodon macrourus macrourus (Gould, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Perameles macroura Gould, J. 1842. Characters of a new species of Perameles, and a new species of Dasyurus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842: 41-42 [41].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 42.5.26.11 ♂ skin & skull, Port Essington, NT.
• Perameles macrura Wagner, J.A. 1853. in Schreber, J.C.D. von (ed.) (1853–1855). Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Eine Zusammenstellung der neuesten Entdeckungen auf dem Gebiete der Säugthierkunde. Leipzig : T.O. Weigel Suppl. 5. xxvi 810 pp. 51 pls [publication date established from notation in British Museum (Nat. Hist.) Zoology Library copy] [211] [emendation of Perameles macroura Gould, 1842].
• Perameles wombeyensis Broom, R. 1896. Report on a bone breccia deposit near Wombeyan Caves, NSW: with descriptions of some new species of marsupials. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21(1): 48-61 [16 Jul 1896] [56].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Broom Cave, Wombeyan Caves, near Taralga, New South Wales, Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Isoodon macrourus macrourus (Gould, 1842). —
  Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [85]
• Thylacis macrourus (Gould, 1842). —
  Lidicker, W.Z. & Follett, W.I. 1968. Isoodon Desmarest, 1817, rather than Thylacis Illiger, 1811, as the valid generic name of the short-nosed bandicoots (Marsupialia: Peramelidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 81: 251-256 [251]
• Isoodon macrourus (Gould, 1842). —
  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 [18]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, low open woodland, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, predator, subtropical, tall open forest, terrestrial, tussock grassland, woodland.

History of changes