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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

 

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