Isoodon peninsulae

O. Thomas, 1922

Cape York Brown Bandicoot

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Marsupialia
Superorder : Australidelphia
Order : Peramelemorphia
Family : Peramelidae
Subfamily : Peramelinae
Genus : Isoodon

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1922-05-30. The bandicoots of Nuyts Archipelago, S. Australia, and of Cape York, N. Queensland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)9(54):677-679.

Original name as described

Isoodon peninsulae

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1915.3.5.71

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Utingu, N Cape York, Queensland, Australia (10 m a.s.l).

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Australia

Taxonomy notes

split from I. obesulus

Taxonomy notes citation

Westerman, M., Kear, B. P., Aplin, K., Meredith, R. W., Emerling, C., & Springer, M. S. (2012). Phylogenetic relationships of living and recently extinct bandicoots based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 62(1), 97-108. · Burbidge, A. A., Eldridge, M. D. B., Groves, C., Harrison, P. L., Jackson, S. M., Reardon, T. B., Westerman, M., & Woinarski, J. C. Z. (2014). A list of native Australian mammal species and subspecies. pp. 15–32, in J. C. Z. Woinarski, A. A. Burbidge, & P. L. Harrison (eds.) The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. · Jackson, S. M., & Groves, C. (2015). Taxonomy of Australian mammals. CSIRO Publishing, Austalia, Clayton.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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