Sarcophilus laniarius dixonae Werdelin, 1987
Dixon's devil (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Sarcophilus harrisii dixonae Wendelin, 1987
Conservation Status
Extinct (Werdelin, 1987; Jackson & Groves, 2015:59) or invalid (synonym of S. harrisii) (Groves, 2005; Rose et al., 2017)
Distribution
Victoria, Australia
Type locality: “Mt. Hamilton”, Victoria
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Type locality: Mt. Hamilton, Victoria, Australia
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Werdelin, L. (1987). Some observations on Sarcophilus laniarius and the evolution of Sarcophilus. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 90: 1-27. [Abstract]
Other references:
Groves, Colin P. (2005). Order Dasyuromorphia, pp. 23-37. In: Wilson, Don E. and Reeder, D. A. (eds ). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Jackson, Stephen and Groves, Colin. (2015). Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Clayton South, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing. 529 pp. [p. 59]
Piper, Katarzyna J. (2007). Early Pleistocene mammals from the Nelson Bay local fauna, Portland, Victoria, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2): 492-503. https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[492:EPMFTN]2.0.CO;2
Rose, Robert K. et al. (2017). Sarcophilus harrisii (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae). Mammalian Species 49(942): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1093/mspecies/sex001