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Perameles gunnii ssp. nov. 'mainland'

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Formerly extinct in the wild

IUCN RedList status: Near Threatened (as a species)

 

Distribution

South Australia & Victoria, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Adriaanse, Katherine Jane. (2018). Investigation of the risk of Toxoplasma gondii to the establishment of the ‘extinct in the wild’ eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii) on Phillip Island. Masters thesis, Melbourne Veterinary School, The University of Melbourne. xvi + 133 pp.

Backhouse, G. N. (1992). Recovery Plan for the Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii. Department of Conservation and Environment, Melbourne.

Backhouse, G. (1994). Recovery plan for the Eastern Barred Bandicoot, Perameles gunnii 1994-1997. Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources, Flora and Fauna Branch, Heidelberg, Victoria.

Backhouse, G. N. and Crosthwaite, J. (1996). Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii. Flora and Fauna Action Statement Number 4 (revised). Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Melbourne.

Backhouse, G. N. and Slater, G. (1995). Recovery Plan for the Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii 1995-96. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and Zoological Board of Victoria, Melbourne.

Brown, P. R. (1989). Management Plan for the Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii in Victoria. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series Number 63. Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, Melbourne.

Cleave, Rohan and Tulloch, Coral. (2018). Bouncing Back: An Eastern Barred Bandicoot Story. CSIRO Publishing. 32 pp.

Coetsee, Amy. (2016). Recovering the mainland Eastern barred bandicoot. The Victorian Naturalist 133(3): 98-102. [Abstract]

Dickman, Chris R. (2015). Family Peramelidae, P. 391. In: Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 5 Monotremes and Marsupials.

Fisher,  J. T. and Norman, P. (1991). Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii. Flora and Fauna Action Statement Number 4. Department of Conservation and Environment, Melbourne.

Garnett, Stephen T., Latch, Peter, Lindenmayer, David B. and Woinarski, John C. Z. (eds.). (2018). Recovering Australian Threatened Species: A Book of Hope. CSIRO Publishing. 360 pp.

Groenewegen, Rebecca, Harley, Dan, Hill, Richard and Coulson, Graeme. (2017). Assisted colonisation trial of the eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii) to a fox-free island. Wildlife Research 44(7): 484-496. [Abstract]

Hartnett, Christine M. et al. (In Press, 2017). Opportunity for female mate choice improves reproductive outcomes in the conservation breeding program of the eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii). Applied Animal Behaviour Science. [Abstract] [relevant reference?]

Hill, R., Winnard, A. and Watson, M. (2010). National Recovery Plan for the Eastern Barred Bandicoot (mainland) Perameles gunnii unnamed subspecies. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Melbourne.

Krake, Denise and Halley, Merril. (1993). Maintenance and captive breeding of the Eastern barred bandicoot Perameles gunnii at Healesville Sanctuary. International Zoo Yearbook 32(1): 216-221. [Abstract]

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. and Morris, K. (1996). The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Australasian Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission, Gland, Switzerland.

Mitchell, Graham F., Myroniuk, Peter O., Kingston, Jenny L., Slater, Gary J. and Seebeck, John H. (1992). Zoo contributions to the recovery programme for the Eastern barred bandicoot Perameles gunnii 1988-1991. International Zoo Yearbook 31(1): 78-81. [Abstract]

Parrott, M. L., Coetsee, A. L., Hartnett, C. M. and Magrath, M. J. L. (2017). New hope for the Eastern barred bandicoot Perameles gunnii after 27 years of recovery effort. International Zoo Yearbook. DOI: 10.1111/izy.12157 [Abstract]

Pledge, Neville S. (1990). The Upper Fossil Fauna of the Henschke Fossil Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum (Proceedings of the De Vis Symposium) 28(1): 247-262.

Robinson, Nicholas Andrew. (1995). Implications from Mitochondrial DNA for Management to Conserve the Eastern Barred Bandicoot (Perameles gunnii). Conservation Biology 9(1): 114-125. [Abstract]

Robinson, Nicholas Andrew, Murray, N. D. and Sherwin, W. B. (1993). VNTR loci reveal differentiation between and structure within populations of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii. Molecular Ecology 2(4): 195-207. [Abstract]

Seebeck, John H. (1995). Eastern Barred Bandicoot, Perameles gunnii, pp. 182-183. In: Strahan, Ronald (ed.). The Mammals of Australia. Chatswood, N.S.W.: Reed Books. 756 pp.

Seebeck, John H, Bennett, A. F. and Dufty, A. C. (1990). Status, distribution and biogeography of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii in Victoria, pp. 21-3 In: Clark, T. W. and Seebeck, John H. (eds.). Management and Conservation of Small Populations. Brookfield, Chicago: Chicago Zoological Society.

Seebeck, John H. and Booth, Rosemary. (1996). Eastern barred bandicoot recovery: the role of the veterinarian in the management of endangered species. Australian Veterinary Journal 73(3): 81-83. [Abstract]

Sherwin, William B., Murray, Neil D., Graves, Jennifer A. Marshall and Brown, Peter R. (1991). Measurement of Genetic Variation in Endangered Populations: Bandicoots (Marsupialia: Peramelidae) as an Example. Conservation Biology 5(1): 103-108. [Abstract]

Todd, C. R., Jenkins, S., and Bearlin, A. R. (2002). Lessons about extinction and translocation: models for eastern barred bandicoots (Perameles gunnii) at Woodlands Historic Park, Victoria, Australia. Biol. Conserv. 106(2): 211-223.

Wakefield, Norman Arthur. (1964a). Recent mammalian sub-fossils of the basalt plains of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. New series 77(2): 419-425.

Wakefield, Norman Arthur. (1964b). Mammal sub-fossils from basalt caves in south-western Victoria. The Victorian Naturalist 80(9): 274-278.

Winnard, A., Hill, R., Courtney, P., Coulson, G., Harley, D., Parrott, M. (2013). Twenty years of captive breeding and re-introduction of the eastern barred bandicoot in Victoria, Australia, pp. 204-209. In: Soorae, P. (ed.). Global Reintroduction Perspectives 2013: Further case studies from around the globe. IUCN/SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group and Environment Agency Abu-Dhabi.

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