Perameles myosuros Wagner, 1841:293
Marl, Marl bandicoot, Western barred bandicoot, West Australian striped bandicoot, Saddle-backed perameles, Rat-tailed bandicoot, South Australian barred bandicoot (Wood Jones, 1924:146), mal, nyemmel, nymal (Noongar)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Perameles myosuros Wagner, 1841:293 (lapsus); Perameles myosura myosura Wagner, 1841:293; Perameles bougainville myosura Wagner, 1841:293; Perameles bougainville myosuros Wagner, 1841:293; Perameles arenaria Gould, 1844:104
Conservation Status
Extinct (Burbidge, 2024)
Last record: 1907 (Travouillon et al., 2023:188)
Distribution
Western Australia, Australia
Type locality: "Swan River district and the surrounds of King George Sound, W.A." (Mahoney & Ride, 1988:40)
Type locality (arenaria): "near York, W.A." (Mahoney & Ride, 1988:40)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: whereabouts unknown (Mahoney & Ride, 1988:40)
Holotype (arenaria): BMNH 44.9.30.5 (skin) / BMNH 44.10.30.5 (skull) (male) (Mahoney & Ride, 1988:40)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wagner, J. A. (1841). Beschreibung einer neuen Art von Bandikuts, Perameles myosurus [sic], nebts Bemerkungen über Perameles obesula. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 7(1): 289-297.
Other references:
Abbott, Ian. (2008). Historical perspectives of the ecology of some conspicuous vertebrate species in south-west Western Australia. Conservation Science W. Aust. 6(3): 1-214.
Burbidge, Andrew A. (2024). Australian terrestrial mammals: how many modern extinctions? Australian Mammalogy. https://doi.org/10.1071/AM23037
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Freedman, L. (1967). Skull and tooth variation in the genus Perameles. Part I: Anatomical features. Records of the Australian Museum 27: 147-166. [relevant citation?]
Friend, J. A. and Burbidge, A. A. (1995). Western Barred Bandicoot, Perameles bougainville, pp. 178-180. In: Strahan, Ronald (ed.). The Mammals of Australia. Chatswood, NSW: Reed Books. 756 pp.
Glauert, Ludwig. (1933). The distribution of the marsupials in Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 19: 17-32.
Gordon, G. and Hall, L. S. (1995). Tail fat storage in arid zone bandicoots. Australian Mammalogy 18: 87-90.
Gould, John. (1844). Exhibition and character of a number of animals, &c. transmitted from Australia by Mr. Gilbert. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1844: 103-107.
Gould, John. (1845-1863). The Mammals of Australia. London: self published.
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. 87-88]
Lundelius, Ernest L. Jr. and Turnbull, W. D. (1981). The mammalian fauna of Madura Cave, Western Australia Part IV. Fieldiana Geology new ser., no. 6: 1-72. [p. 28]
Mahoney, J. A. and Ride, W. D. L. (1988). Peramelidae, pp. 36-42. In: Walton, D. W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. x + 273 pp. [p. 40]
Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. and Morris, K. (1996). The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Monotremes and Marsupials. Wildlife Australia, Canberra.
Quoy, J. R. C. and Gaimard, J. P. (1830). Zoologie (in) Dumont d'Urville, J.S.C. Voyages de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe Executes par ordre du Roi pendant les annees 1826-1827-1828-1829 sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Volume 1. Paris: J. Tastu
Thomas, Oldfield. (1907). List of further collections of mammals from Western Australia, including a series from Bernier Island, obtained for Mr. W.E. Balston; with field-notes by the collector, Mr. G.C. Shortridge. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1906: 763-777.
Travouillon, Kenny J., Menard, J. and Burbidge, Alan A. (2023). Marl, Perameles myosuros, pp. 187-188. In: Baker, Andrew M. and Gynther, Ian C. (eds.). Strahan’s Mammals of Australia (4th ed.). Wahroonga, NSW: Reed New Holland Publishers. 848 pp.
Travouillon, Kenny J. and Phillips, Matthew J. (2018). Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): reassessment of two species and description of a new species. Zootaxa 4378(2): 224-256.
Wagner, J. A. (1853). In: Schreber, J. C. D. von (ed.) (1853-1855). Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Eine Zusammenstellung der neuesten Entdeckungen auf dem Gebiete der Säugthierkunde. Leipzig: T.O. Weigel Suppl. 5 xxvi 810 pp. 51 pls.
Wakefield, N. A. (1963). Mammal remains from the Grampians, Victoria. Vict. Nat. 80: 130-133.
Waterhouse, George Robert. (1845). A Natural History of the Mammalia. Volume 1, Containing the Order Marsupiata or Pouched Animals. London: Hippolyte Baillière. 553 pp + 20 pls.
Williams, Dominic L. G. (1980). Catalogue of Pleistocene vertebrate fossils and sites in South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 104(5): 101-115. [p. 110, top of left column]
Woinarski, John C. Z., Braby, M. F., Burbidge, A. A., Coates, D., Garnett, S. T., Fensham, R. J., Legge, S. M., McKenzie, N. L., Silcock, J L. and Murphy, B. P. (2019). Reading the black book: The number, timing, distribution and causes of listed extinctions in Australia. Biological Conservation 239: 108261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108261
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. 146-150 (account)]
http://museum.wa.gov.au/about/latest-news/new-research-tracks-evolution-bilbies-and-bandicoots-new-species-discovered ["New research tracks evolution of bilbies and bandicoots, new species discovered"]
https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/13367/perameles-bougainville-ssp-myosura