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--> GENUS Perameles
SPECIES Perameles bougainville
Author: | Quoy and Gaimard, 1824. | Citation: | In de Freycinet, Voy. autour du monde...l'Uranie et al Physicienne, Zool.: 56. | Common Name: | Western Barred Bandicoot | Type Locality: | Australia, Western Australia, Shark Bay, Peron Peninsula. | Distribution: | Formerly in S South Australia, NW Victoria, W New South Wales, S Western Australia, Bernier and Dorre Isls, survives only on Bernier and Dorre Isls (off Western Australia). | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Extinct as P. b. fasciata, Endangered as P. b. bougainville. Rare. | Comments: | See Ride (1970:100). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
arenaria Gould, 1844 fasciata Gray, 1841 myosuros Wagner, 1841 notina Thomas, 1922
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