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SPECIES Bettongia lesueur
Author: | Quoy and Gaimard, 1824. | Citation: | In de Freycinet, Voy. autour du monde...Uranie et al Physicienne, Zool.: 64. | Common Name: | Boodie | Type Locality: | Australia, Western Australia, Dirk Hartog Isl (Shark Bay). | Distribution: | Formerly in Dampier Land (Western Australia), South Australia, Dirk Hartog Isl, Barrow Isl, Bernier and Dorre Isls, Northern Territory, and SW New South Wales (Australia); now extinct except on W Australian Isls. | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Extinct as B. l. graii, otherwise Vulnerable. Rare. | Comments: | Commonly misspelt "lesueuri", but the original spelling is lesueur, with no indication that it is an error. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
anhydra Finlayson, 1957 graii (Gould, 1841) harveyi (Waterhouse, 1842)
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