Perameles papillon Travouillon & Phillips, 2018
Butterfly bandicoot, Nullarbor barred bandicoot, Zebra rat, walilya
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1928 (specimen) (Travouillon & Burbidge, 2023:193); 1920-1960 (c.1940?) (source)
Distribution
Nullarbor, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
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.
Other references:
McKenzie, N. L. and Robinson, A. C. (eds.). (1987). A Biological Survey of the Nulalrbor Region, South and Western Australia, in 1984. Adelaide: Department of Environment and Planning.
Travouillon, Kenny J. (2017). To document the diversity of bandicoots and bilbies through time and space. Report for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia. 18 pp.
Travouillon, Kenny J. and Burbidge, Alan A. (2023). Nullarbor Barred Bandicoot, Perameles papillon, pp. 193-194. In: Baker, Andrew M. and Gynther, Ian C. (eds.). Strahan’s Mammals of Australia (4th ed.). Wahroonga, NSW: Reed New Holland Publishers. 848 pp.
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
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/23115/perameles-papillon