Peramelemorphia (Bandicoots, Bilbies and Pig-footed Bandicoots)
Family: †Chaeropodidae (Pig-footed Bandicoots)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Chaeropus ecaudatus castanotis | Gray, 1842 | Pig-footed bandicoot | ? | Australia | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Chaeropus ecaudatus ecaudatus | Ogilby, 1838 | Pig-footed bandicoot, Chestnut-eared chaeropus, landwang (Murray-Darling region language/s), walputju, wilalya (Kukata language), kunjilba/kuntjilpa/kanjilpa (Pitjanjatjarra language) | 1910-1920 | mainland Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia (all historically), & Queensland (prehistorically)) | Extinct | Access |
Chaeropus ecaudatus occidentalis | Gould, 1845 | Western pig-footed bandicoot | 1843 | Australia | Extinct | Access |
Chaeropus yirratji | Travouillon et al., 2019 | Yirratji, Northern pig-footed bandicoot | c.1958 | Australia (Northern Territory? South Australia?) | Extinct | Access |
Family: Peramelidae (Bandicoots)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Echymipera sp. nov. 'Halmahera' | - | - | Holocene | Halmahera, New Guinea | Extinct | Access |
Isoodon aff. auratus | - | cf. Golden bandicoot | ? | Mallee Region, Victoria, Australia | Extinct | Access |
Isoodon sp. nov. 'Queensland' |
- | - | c.8.5ka? | northern Queensland, Australia | Extinct | Access |
Perameles eremiana | Spencer, 1897 | Desert bandicoot, walilya | Between 1964 and 1969 | Northern Territory, South Australia & Western Australia, Australia | Extinct | Access |
Perameles fasciata | Gray, 1841 | Eastern striped bandicoot, Eastern barred-bandicoot, Banded perameles, Banded bandicoot, thill, moncat | 1856-57 or later | South Australia, Australia | Extinct | Access |
Perameles gunnii ssp. nov. 'mainland' | - | Eastern barred bandicoot | ? | South Australia & Victoria, Australia | Formerly extinct in the wild | Access |
Perameles myosuros | Wagner, 1841 | Marl bandicoot | 1922 | Australia | Extinct | Access |
Perameles notina | Thomas, 1922 | South Australian barred bandicoot | ? | South Australia, Australia | Extinct | Access |
Perameles papillon | Travouillon & Phillips, 2018 | Butterfly bandicoot, Nullarbor barred bandicoot | 1920-1960 (c.1940?) | Nullarbor, Australia | Extinct | Access |
Perameles sobbei | Price, 2002 | Sobbe's bandicoot | 40-45ka | Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Perameles wombeyensis |
Broom, 1896 | Wombeyan bandicoot | Wombeyan Caves, near Taralga, New South Wales, Australia | Invalid (synonym) | Access | |
Peroryctes aruensis | Kear, Aplin & Westerman, 2016 | - | Late Pleistocene | Pulau Kobnoor, Aru Islands | Extinct | Access |
Family: Thylacomyidae (Bilbies)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Macrotis lagotis cambrica | Troughton, 1932 | ? | 1912 | New South Wales & South Australia, Australia | Invalid | Access |
Macrotis lagotis grandis | Troughton, 1932 | Nalpa bilby | c.1900? | South Australia, Australia | Invalid | Access |
Macrotis lagotis interjecta | Troughton, 1932 | ? | ? | Western Australia, Australia | Invalid | Access |
Macrotis lagotis nigripes | Jones, 1923 | ? | ? | South Australia, Australia | Invalid | Access |
Macrotis leucura leucura | Thomas, 1887 | Lesser bilby, Lesser rabbit-eared bandicoot, White-tailed rabbit-eared bandicoot, White-tailed rabbit bandicoot, Yallara | c. 1968 | Northern Territory, South Australia & Western Australia, Australia | Extinct | Access |
Macrotis leucura minor | (Spencer, 1897) | Lesser rabbit-bandicoot bilby, Urpila | ? | central Australia | Invalid | Access |
Macrotis leucura miseliae | Finlayson, 1932 | ? | ? | Australia | Invalid | Access |