Perameles bougainville

Quoy & Gaimard, 1824

Western Barred Bandicoot

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Quoy, J.-R.-C. and Gaimard, J.P. 1824. Voyage autour du monde, entrepris par ordre du Roi, sous le ministère et conformement aux instructions de S. Exc. M. le Vicomte de Bouchage, secrétaire d'état au département de la marine, exécuté sur les coverttes de S. M. l'Oranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Zoologie. Pillet Aîné, Paris, 712 pp.

Original name as described

Perameles Bougainville

Other common names

Little Marl · Marl · Saddle-backed Bandicoot · Shark Bay Striped Bandicoot · West Australian Striped Bandicoot · Zebra Rat

Type material

MNHN 1933-223

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"la presqu'île Péron [= Peron Peninsula], Shark Bay, Western Australia, Australia.

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Australia

Taxonomy notes

previously included P. myosuros, P. notina, and P. fasciata, which are all extinct; also included populations now attributed to the extinct P. papillon

Taxonomy notes citation

Travouillon, K. J., & Phillips, M. 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.

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

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