Subspecies Isoodon macrourus torosus (Ramsay, 1877)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Perameles macroura torosa Ramsay, E.P. 1877. The mammals of the Chevert Expedition, part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 7-15 [12] [proposed originally as 'Perameles macroura var. torosus'].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (not seen by Tate, G.H.H. 1948. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 60 Studies in the Peramelidae (Marsupialia). Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. His. 92: 313–346 [339] or by Lyne, A.G. & Mort, P.A. 1981. A comparison of skull morphology in the marsupial bandicoot genus Isoodon: its taxonomic implications and notes on a new species, Isoodon arnhemensis. Australian Mammalogy 4: 107–133 [108]), near Cooktown, QLD.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

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

History of changes