Species Potorous platyops (Gould, 1844) (extinct)

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External Links

• Hypsiprymnus platyops Gould, J. 1844. Exhibition and character of a number of animals, &c. transmitted from Australia by Mr. Gilbert. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1844: 103-107 [publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [438]] [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 46.4.25.11 skull (part) & ♀ adult skin (44.9.30.4), Walyema Swamps near Northam, WA (=Lake Walyormouring, WA).

  Type locality references:

  Calaby, J.H. 1954. Comments on Gilbert's note-book on marsupials. Western Australian Naturalist 4: 147-148.
• Potorous morgani Finlayson, H.H. 1938. On a new species of Potorous (Marsupialia) from a cave deposit on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 62: 132-140 [135].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SAMA P3413 adult unsexed partial skull, Kelly's Hill Caves, Kangaroo Is., SA; SAMA P168 adult unsexed partial skull & mandible, Kelly's Hill Caves, Kangaroo Is., SA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [58]

 

Generic Combinations

• Potorous platyops (Gould, 1844).

 

Introduction

Now considered extinct.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Fossil remains from SA to WA, now extinct.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Virtually nothing of the biology known.

 

General References

Butler, W.H. & Merrilees, D. 1971. Remains of Potorous platyops (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) and other mammals from Bremer Bay, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 54: 53-58

Kitchener, D.J. 1995. Broad-faced Potoroo Potorous platyops. pp. 300-301 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Broad-faced Potoroo)

 

History of changes

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