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Macrotis lagotis grandis Troughton, 1932:229

Nalpa bilby

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Invalid (synonym)

 

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym)

Last record: c.1900?

 

Distribution

South Australia, Australia

Type locality: "Nalpa, Lake Alexandrina [district], South Australia." (Tate, 1948:344)

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

Holotype: SAMA M5225 (male; skin without skull) (Mahoney & Ride, 1988:44)

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Troughton, Ellis Le Geyt. (1932). A revision of the rabbit-bandicoots. Family Peramelidae, genus Macrotis. Australian Zoologist 7: 219-236.

 

Species bibliography:

Flannery, Timothy, Kendall, Paula and Wynn-Moylan, Karen. (1990). Australia's Vanishing Mammals: Endangered and Extinct Native Species. Sydney: Reader's Digest Press. 192 pp.

Iredale, Tom and Troughton, Ellis Le Geyt. (1934). A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i-xii, 1-122.

Jackson, Stephen and Groves, Colin. (2015). Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Clayton South, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing. 529 pp. [p. 91]

Mahoney, J. A. and Ride, W. D. L. (1988). Thylacomyidae, pp. 43-45. In: Walton, D. W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. x + 273 pp. [p. 44]

Tate, George Henry Hamilton. (1948). Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 60. Studies in the Peramelidae (Marsupialia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 92(6): 313-346, text figure 1, tables 1-10.

Wood Jones, Frederic. (1924). The Mammals of South Australia. Part II. The Bandicoots and the Herbivorous Marsupials (The syndactylous Didelphia). Adelaide: Government Printer. 2: 132-270. [8 August 1924] [p. 156]

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