HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER PERAMELEMORPHIA
--> FAMILY Thylacomyidae
--> GENUS Macrotis
SPECIES Macrotis lagotis
Author: | Reid, 1836. | Actual Date: | 1837 | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836: 129. | Common Name: | Greater Bilby | Type Locality: | Australia, Western Australia, Swan River. | Distribution: | Formerly in Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory, W New South Wales, SW Queensland. Survives only in SW Queensland, Northern Territory/Western Australia border region and Kimberleys. | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Vulnerable. | |
| Offspring: | Synonyms:
cambrica Troughton, 1932 grandis Troughton, 1932 interjecta Troughton, 1932 nigripes (Wood Jones, 1923) sagitta (Thomas, 1905)
|
|
|