Peroryctes aruensis (Kear, Aplin & Westerman, 2016)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Lemdubuoryctes aruensis Kear, Aplin & Westerman, 2016 (basionym)
Recombined as P. aruensis by (Travouillon & Phillips, 2018).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Pulau Kobnoor, Aru Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Kear, Benjamin P., Aplin, Ken P. and Westerman, Michael. (2016). Bandicoot fossils and DNA elucidate lineage antiquity amongst xeric-adapted Australasian marsupials. Scientific Reports 6: 37537.
Other references:
Aplin, Ken and Pasveer, Juliette. (2006). Mammals and Other Vertebrates from Late Quaternary Archaeological Sites on Pulau Kobroor, Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, pp. 41-62. In: O'Connor, S., Spriggs, M. and Veth, P. (eds.). Terra Australis 22 (The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia). Canberra: ANU Press. 314 pp.
Jones, K. E. et al. (2009). PanTHERIA: A species-level database of life-history, ecology and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology 90: 2648.
Travouillon, Kenny J., Jackson, Stephen, Beck, Robin M. D., Louys, Julien, Cramb, Jonathan, Gillespie, Anna, Black, Karen, Hand, Suzanne, Archer, Michael, Kear, Benjamin, Hocknull, Scott, Phillips, Matthew, McDowell, Matthew, Fitzgerald, Erich M. G., Brewer, Phillipa and Price, Gilbert J. (2024). Checklist of the Fossil Mammal Species of Australia and New Guinea. Available from: https://www.australasianpalaeontologists.com/national-fossil-species-lists [Accessed 24 November 2024]
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.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]
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