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Dasyurus maculatus bowlingi (Spencer & Kershaw 1910:29)

King Island quoll

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Dasyurus bowlingi Spencer & Kershaw, 1910:20 (original combination)

 

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym)

 

Distribution

King Island, Bass Strait, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

Holotype: P15101

Paratypes:

P15102
P25940

Other specimens:

USNM 14950 (http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID:nmnhvz_7226837) [erroneous record?]

TMAG skull specimen A579

 

Media

 

 

References

Original Scientific Description:

Spencer, W. Baldwin and Kershaw, J. A. (1910). A Collection of Sub-fossil Bird and Marsupial Remains from King Island, Bass Strait. Mem. Nat. Mus. Melbourne 3: 5-35.

 

Other references:

Gill, E. D. (1953). Catalogue of Quaternary types and figured specimens in the National Museum, Melbourne. Mem. Natn. Mus. Vict. 18: 157-168, pI. 1.

Hope, J. H. (1973). Mammals of the Bass Strait Islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 85(2): 163-196.

Mahoney, J. A. and Ride, W. D. L. (1975). Index to the genera and species of fossil Mammalia described from Australia and New Guinea between 1838 and 1968. Western Australian Museum Special Publication 6: 1-250.

Mahoney, J. A. and Ride, W. D. L. (1988). Dasyuridae, pp. 14-33. In: In: Walton, D. W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 5. Mammalia. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

Marshall, L. G. and Hope, J. H. (1973). A re-evaluation of Dasyurus bowlingi Spencer and Kershaw 1910 (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae) from King Island, Bass Strait. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 85(2): 225-234.

Travouillon, Kenny J., Jackson, Stephen, Beck, Robin M. D., Louys, Julien, Cramb, Jonathan, Gillespie, Anna, Black, Karen, Hand, Suzanne, Archer, Michael, Kear, Benjamin, Hocknull, Scott, Phillips, Matthew, McDowell, Matthew, Fitzgerald, Erich M. G., Brewer, Phillipa and Price, Gilbert J. (2024). Checklist of the Fossil Mammal Species of Australia and New Guinea.  Available from: https://www.australasianpalaeontologists.com/national-fossil-species-lists [Accessed 24 November 2024]

Woinarski, John, Burbidge, Andrew and Harrison, Peter. (2014). The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012. Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing. 1056 pp.

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/6275/king-island-quoll

 

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