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us AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, SYDNEY. 


MEMOIR VI. 


A CHECK-LIST OF THE MAMMALS 
RECORDED FROM AUSTRALIA 


By 
TOM IREDALE 


and 


E. LE Gc PROUGHTON. 


PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE eee 
CHARLES ANDERSON, M.A., D.Sc. LoD: 
Sydney, May 4, 1934.) 


The following new names are proposed in this Memoir : 


AUSTRONOMUS gen. nov. 
Type Nyctinomus australis atratus. Thomas 


FRETIDELPHIS gen. nov. 
Type Delphinus roseiventris Wagner 


MICRONOMUS gen. nov. 
Type Molossus norfolkensis Gray 


Notomys megalotis nom. nov... 


RHINOPHYLLOTIS gen. nov. 
Type Rhinolophus megaphyllus Gray 


Sminthopsis lumholtzi nom. nov. 
Tursiops maugeanus nom. nov. 


VESPADELUS gen. nov. 
Type Scotophilus pumilus Gray 


WOMBATULA gen. nov. 
Type Phascolomys gillespiet De Vis 


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INTRODUCTION. 


More than three centuries have passed away since Pelsart in 1629 
provided the first known description of an Australian pouched animal, 
and, although over 400 species and subspecies of mammals, marsupial 
and otherwise, have since been described, the present work is the first 
to assemble in a comprehensive taxonomic list the mammalian orders 
indigenous to Australia and the adjacent seas. 

Much care has been devoted to supplying the original references 
to species, thus avoiding the reiteration of extensive synonymic 
lists, while the essential generic references are quoted in a manner 
adequately stabilising the name to be accepted. A feature especially 
helpful to fellow-workers is the listing of authentic type localities, 
as those of many of the earlier species have hitherto been either 
overlooked or misquoted, and wrong conclusions have resulted 
therefrom. 

A very natural result of the early recognition of the extra- 
ordinary interest of the Australian fauna was that collections made by 
explorer-naturalists, officials, and settlers went overseas to be described 
and stored away for all time. Until recently, therefore, much of the 
mammalian research has been carried out abroad, and Australian 
workers have been troubled by the fact that many species are known 
only by meagre descriptions of material which is rarely illustrated and 
mostly unrepresented in their collections. 

Further confusion arose from the fact that for many years no 
attempt was made accurately to localise individual discoveries, so 
that a vast amount of field-work must be carried out in order to 
cheek not only the identity but the actual survival and present range 
of many species. 

No student of Australian mammalogy, however, can fail to be 
impressed by the magnitude of the work accomplished by John Gould, 
and the wide knowledge he gained in the early days of various parts 
of the continent and the habits of its quaint denizens, which led to the 
preparation of the three wonderful volumes of ‘‘ The Mammals of 
Australia.” 

The authors also pay tribute to those past and present workers 
who have devoted much ability and energy to furthering a knowledge 
of the fascinating mammalian fauna. Amongst the earlier workers 
were Gerard Krefft and Dr. E. Pierson Ramsay, past Curators of the 
Australian Museum. Jn the nineties J. Douglas Ogilby was engaged 
by the Museum Trustees to prepare a ‘“‘ Catalogue of Australian 
Mammals,” published in 1892, a compilation which, though providing 
a useful basis, suffered from the author’s lack of experience of the 
subject, and his failure to consult the important collections already 
available in the Museum. While a member of the Museum staff, 
Edgar R. Waite contributed some important work upon the mammals, 
notably in association with Professor Baldwin Spencer, who also 
named some important discoveries, on the collections of the Horn 
Expedition to Central Australia. 


Vi MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


The “ Catalogue of Marsupialia and Monotremata ” by Oldfield 
Thomas, of the British Museum, will, of course, provide a basis of 
study for all time. Since its publication in 1888, however, its author 
has described not only a great number of marsupials, but rodents 
and bats as well, so that his activities alone provided urgent need for 
the compilation of a check-list. 

Of the more recent comprehensive works, the “List of 
Australasian and Austro-Pacific Muride,’’ published by Heber A. 
Longman in 1916, is invaluable when studying the indigenous rodent 
fauna, but many forms have since been described, while the nomen- 
clature has been subjected to considerable revision. Finally, there 
is the splendid handbook to ‘“‘The Mammals of South Australia,” 
1923-1925, prepared and illustrated with so much care and originality 
by Professor F. Wood Jones while occupying the Chair of Anatomy 
at the University of Adelaide. Workers in mammalogy owe a debt 
of gratitude to the author of this handbook, which, though restricted 
as to the range of actual forms, really provides a complete introduction 
to the study of the mammalian fauna of Australia. 

Concerning the major classification of Marsupialia, it has seemed 
advisable to follow the older and more familiar one used in the 
“ Catalogue ” by Thomas rather than that adopted by Wood Jones 
in his Handbook, though close analysis of the latter classification must 
prove very instructive to students of mammalogy. 

All references to scientific names have been checked by consulta- 
tion of Palmer’s “ Index Generum Mammalium ” and Sherborn’s 
“Index Animalium.’”’ The accuracy of both of these compilers is, 
of course, beyond comparison, and the satisfactory compilation of 
this List has been greatly facilitated by the assistance of these 
standard works. 

Throughout this work, the provision of vernacular names for all 
forms, many of which were met with in the wild state only by the 
collector, has often proved a more difficult task than that of establishing 
the priority of scientific names. The aboriginal names, which may 
vary with local tribes, or those used by settlers in various districts 
or States, for instance, are hardly applicable to single species which 
may occur in several mainland States and on islands as well. 

The law of priority has invariably been followed in the acceptance 
of scientific names and, although the inevitable and sometimes 
drastic changes may be regretted, adoption of the earliest valid name 
provides the sole means of reaching finality, and also avoids the 
lasting confusion which results from conserving here and rejecting 
there. 

At the present time there is definite evidence of a revival of 
interest in mammalian research within the Commonwealth, and it is 
the authors’ hope that this List will not only enable workers to 
designate genera and species with certainty, but also assist in creating 
a universal understanding of our faunal problems and the urgent 
need for the conservation of existing species. 


Tom IREDALE 
EK. Lr G. TROUGHTON 


Contents. 


(For genera and species, see Index.) 


PAGE. 

Class MAMMALIA is 1 
Subclass MoNnoTREMATA 1 
Family ORNITHORHYNCHIDA 1 
Genus ORNITHORHYNCHUS 1 


ORNITHORHYNCHUS ana- 
linus 
Family TACHYGLOSSID& 
Genus TACHYGLOSSUS 
TACHYGLOSSUS aculeatus .. 
setosus 
Subclass MARSUPIALIA . ji 
Suborder POLYPROTODONTIA 
Family DasyURIDz .. , 
Subfamily PHAscoGALINa 
Genus ANTECHINUS 
ANTECHINUS flavipes .. 
Bia godmani 
bellus 
om swainsoni 
a minimus 
it maculatus 
HA macdonnel- 
lensis 
Me mimulus 
apicalis 
Genus PLAN IGALE 
PLANIGALE ingrami 
as tenuirostris 
ie subtilissima 
Genus PHASCOGALE 
PHASCOGALE tapoatafa .. 
zs calura 
Genus DasycERCUS ae 
DASYCERCUS cristicauda 
es blythi 
Genus DASYUROIDES 
DASYUROIDES byrnei 
Genus SMINTHOPSIS aie 
SmintTHOPSIS crassicaudata 
4 granulipes 
iB froggattt 
én larapinta .. 
‘3 psammophila 
an stalkert 
aS murina 
Bo leucopus 
= longicaudata 
e virginie 
mn lumholtzi .. 
hirtipes 
Genus "ANTECHINOMYS ahs 
ANTECHINOMYS laniger 
ae spencert 


WOOOW WWMM AIAWIARDAIAAIH Onan PP PP OOD DDE 


Pace. 


Class Mammatta—Continued. 
Subfamily DasyURINZ .. 
Genus DASYURUS .. 
Dasyurws quoll 
Genus DAasyURINUS 
DasyURINUS geoffrovi 
Genus SATANELLUS 
SATANELLUS hallucatus 
Genus DASYUROPS. . 
Dasyurops maculatus .. 
% gracilis 
Genus SARCOPHILUS 
SARCOPHILUS harrisit 
Subfamily THyLACININ 2 
Genus THYLACINUS 
THYLACINUS cynocephalus 
Family MyRMECOBIID 
Genus MyRMECOBIUS 
MyrMeEcosius fasciatus 
5 rufus 
Family NovorycrTip & 
Genus NotoryCTES 
Nororycrss typhlops 
ics caurinus .. 
Family PERAMELIDZ 
Genus IsoopoN 
Isoopon obesulus .. 
3 nauticus .. 
ae barrowensis 
bs auratus 
>» peninsulce 
>> macrourus 
torosus 
Goris PERAMELES.. 
PERAMELES nasuta ets 
LA eremiana 
fasciata 
ss gunnit 
as myosura 
es bougainville 
Genus MAcroris 
Macrotis lagotis 
on minor 
leucura 
Genus CH2ROPUS .. 
CHAROPUS ecaudatus 
Suborder DrpRoTODONTIA .. 
Family PHALANGERIDZ 
Subfamily TarsrPeDINz 
Genus TARSIPES 
TARSIPES spensere 


Vili 


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Pace. 


Class MamMALIs—Continued. 


Subfamily PHALANGERIN& 
Genus ACROBATES 
ACROBATES pygmaeus 
Genus CERCARTETUS 
CERCARTETUS nanus 

concinnus 
Genus "BupRomIcIA 
EUDROMICIA macrura 
os lepida 
Genus GYMNOBELIDEUS 
GYMNOBELIDEUS lead- 
beateri .. a 
Genus PETAURUS . 
PErAvuRws australis 
es norfolcensis .. 
a breviceps 
Genus DacryLopsiLa 
DACTYLOPSILA picata 
Genus PSEUDOCHEIRUS. . 
PSEUDOCHEIRUS p e€ fr e- 
grinus 
iH lani- 
ginosus 
me OC C 4- 
dentalis 
Ah cCONnvoO- 
lutor 
a herbert- 
ensts 
Genus PSEUDOCHIROPS 
PSEUDOCHIRORS archeri 
Genus HEMIBELIDEUS .. 
HEMIBELIDEUS lemuroides 
Genus PETROPSEUDES .. 
PETROPSEUDES dahli 
Genus SCHOINOBATES 
ScHOINOBATES volans 
Genus TRICHOSURUS 
TRICHOSURUS vulpecula 
caninus .. 
Genus "WyULDA 
WYvULDA squamicaudata 
Genus SPILOCUSCUS 
SprLocuscus nudicaudatus 


Family PHASCOLARCTID& 


Genus PHASCOLARCTOS 
PHASCOLARCTOS cinereus 


Family VOMBATID#.. ». 


Genus VoMBATUS 
VOMBATUS ursinus 

re hirsutus 
Genus LASIORHINUS 
LASIORHINUS latifrons .. 
Genus WoMBATULA 
WomBatTuta gillespiet . . 


Family Macroropip 2 


Subfamily HyprsipryMno- 
DONTIN 

Genus HypsiprymNopon 

HyPsIPRYMNODON ™os- 
chatus .. 


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Class MAMMALIA—Continued. 


Subfamily Pororomn.# 
Genus BETTONGIA 
Berroneta penicillata 


3 gaimardi 
$9 lesueur 
a cuniculus 


Genus AipyPRYMNUS 
ABPYPRYMNUS rufescens 
Genus Potorovs 
Pororovs tridactylus 
ay gilbertit 
2° platyops 
Genus CALOPRYMNUS 
CALOPRYMNUS campestris 
Subfamily Macroropin= 
Genus DENDROLAGUS 
DENDROLAGUS lumholtzi 
ie bennet - 
tianus .. 
Genus LAGORCHESTES .. 
Lacorcuestss leporides 
ae conspicil- 
latus .. 
hirsutus 
Genus LAGOSTROPHUS ie 
Lacostropuus fasciatus 
Genus ONYCHOGALEA 
ONYCHOGALEA unguifer 
£% Srenata 
lunata 
Genus ‘PeRADORCAS 
PERADORCAS concinna .. 
Genus PETROGALE 5 
PETROGALE penicillata .. 


Pe inornata 

ee, longmant 

m wilkinsi .. 

.s brachyotis .. 

Bs rothschildi .. 

a wanthopus .. 

Ms lateralis 

a hacketti 
pearsoni 


Genus SETONIX 
SETONIX brachyurus 
Genus THYLOGALE 
THYLOGALE coxendi 


mi stigmatica 

a thetis 

eS parma 

Ba Jlindersi 

i eugenit 

es billardierti 
if bedford: | 


Genus WALLABIA .. 
WALLABIA agilis 


5 bicolor 

te welsbyi 

2 rufogrisea 
x: dorsalis 


aS elegans 


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45 
45 
45 
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CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 


PaGeE. 


Class MamMatia—Continued. 


WALLABIA greyit 

ms arma 
Genus OsPHRANTER 
OSPHRANTER antilopinus 


3 isabellinus 

Be erubescens 

“5 reginee 

ay robustus 
bernardus. . 


Genus MEGALEIA 
MEGALEIA rufa... 
E69 hagenbecki] . 
Genus Macrorvs .. 
MACROPUS major .. 

re ocydromus 

$s tasmaniensis 

* fuliginosus .. 
[ (major?) melanops] 

aH ? cangaru 


Subclass PLACENTALIA 


Order CETACEA 
Suborder Mysracocert 
Family BaALzNID = 

Genus BAL@{NA 
BaL=Na antipodum 
Genus CAPEREA ae 
CAPEREA marginata pe 
Genus BAL#NOPTERA 
BALZNOPTERA musculus 


5 physalus 
ay acuto- 
rostrata 


Genus MEGAPTERA 
MEGAPTERA australis 
Suborder ODoNTOCETI 
Family PHysETERID® 
Genus Puyserer .. 
PHYSETER australasianus 
Genus Koeta . 
Koeia breviceps % 
Family Hyprroopontip # 
Genus HyPEROODON 
Hyprroopon planifrons 
Genus ZIPHIuS oe 
Zieutus chathamiensis .. 
Genus DiopLopoNn 
DiopLopDon densirostris 
Genus MEsopLopoN 
MEsopLopon layardii 
09 grayt 
pacificus .. 
[Family DELPHINAPTERID& 
Genus DELPHINAPTERUS 
DELPHINAPTERUS kingii 
Family Paoca:nip = 
Genus GRAMPUS 
GRAMPUS orca . 
Genus PsEupoRCA.. 
PSEUDORCA crassidens .. 
Genus GLOBICEPHALUS 


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Pacs. 
Class MamMAaLta—Continued. 
GLOBICEPHALUS — ventri- 
cosus ‘ 64 
Genus GRAMPIDELPHIS | 64 
GRAMPIDELPHIS exilis 64 
Family DeLpHINip= 65 
Genus DELPHINUS 65 
DELPHINUS delphis 65 
Genus FRETIDELPHIS 65 
FRETIDELPHIS roseiventris 65 
Genus STENELLA 65 
STENELLA longirostris 66 
3 attenuata 66 
[DELPHINUS ae ee 66 
boryi 66] 
Genus LissoDELPHIS 66 
LisSODELPHIS peronii 67 
Genus LAGENORHYNCHUS 67 
LAGENORHYNCHUS ob- 
SCUTUE TA SP iad! siew'ds ver OU 
[Genus Sousa .. pom Ors: 
Sousa lentiginosa .. .. 68 
> gadamu 68] 
Genus TuRSIoPs 68 
TurRsiors catalania 68 
ve he aca a es 68 
Order SIRENIA ‘| 68 
Family DuconGip a 68 
Genus Ducona 68 
Dvucone australis .. 69 
Order RopENT!IA . : 69 
Suborder SIMPLICIDENTATA 69 
Family Murip 69 
Subfamily Hypromyine 69 
Genus Hypromys ao ati!) 
Hypromys chrysogaster 69 
1 longmani .. 70 
¥5 melicertes .. 70 
‘ caurinus 70 
ae fuliginosus 70 
Genus XEROMYS .. 70 
XEROMYS myoides 71 
Subfamily Murti a 
Genus Ratrus tal 
Rattus assimilis 7A 
oN AP UUSCUDES) « . Ul 
a lutreolus .. 71 
aA grey... 72 
oa sordidus .. UP; 
<6 colletti 72 
FP conatus 12 
as manicatus T2 
re vellerosus 72 
Pe villosissimus .. 73 
me melvilleus ip 
We mondraineus .. 73 
>  tunneyi 73 
a3 woodwardi a 
r velutinus ae 
5 culmorum 74 
ra leucopus .. 74 
[gs rattus 74] 


x MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Pace. 


Class Mammatia—Continued. 
Genus PSEUDOMYS 
Psrupomys australis .. 

ms higginsi 
iss auritus 
$3 minnie 
id rawlinnee 
shortridget 
Genes "THETOMYS 


THETOMYS nanus 
eS ferculinus .. 
er preeconis 
‘3 gracilicaudatus 
85 gouldtt 
Genus LEGGADINA 
Leeeapina forresti 
aa delicatula . . 
33 patria 
es fieldi 
ne hermanns- 
burgensis 
ar messoria .. 
ee waite 


Genus GYOoMys 7 E 
GYomys noveehollandice 


55 glaucus .. 
Fa, desertor .. 
< apodemoides .. 
Re albocinereus .. 
Genus MastTacomys 
Masracomys fuscus 
zy mordicus 


Genus Laomys 
Laomys woodwardi 

a pedunculatus .. 
Genus MESEMBRIOMYS 
MrEsEMBRIOMYS gouldit 


MaAaCcrurus 


Genus "LEPORILLUS 
LEPORILLUS apicalis 
ey jonest 
se conditor 
Genus CoNILURUS 
ContLuRws albipes 
Ps hemileucurus 
35 penicillatus 
ais melibius 
Genus Zyzomys 
ZYZOMYS argurus 
Genus Notomys .. 
Notomys mitchellii 
sy mordax 
eB aquilo .. 
5 longicaudatus 
= megalotis 
we richardsonii 
ms alexis 
sturti 
Genus ASCOPHARYNX . 
ASCOPHARYNX cervinus 
Genus URomys és 
Uromys caudimaculatus 


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76 
76 
76 
76 
Ou 


Pace. 


Class Mammat1a—Continued. 


Uromys sherrini .. 
Genus MELOMyYS 
MeEtomys cervinipes 
a banfieldi 
45 littoralis 
és australius 
5 murinus 
38 rubicola 
melicus . 
Order PIN NIPEDIA 
Family PHocipz 
Genus Lopopon 
LoBopon carcinophaga 
Genus HyDRURGA 
Hyprur@a leptonyx 
Genus LEpToNYCHOTES 
LEPTONYCHOTES weddellii 
Genus MACRORHINUS .. 
MACRORHINUS ~_ probos- 
cideus.. SE daeiaye 
Family OrarRmpa& 
Genus NEorPHOCA 
NEOPHOCA cinerea 
Genus GyPSOPHOCA 
GyPpsoPHoca tropicalis 
i dorifera .. 
is tasmanica 
Order CARNIVORA 
Family CaNnip a 
Genus CANIS. . 
Canis dingo 
Order CHTROPTERA 
Suborder MEGACHIROPTERA 
Family PrERopoDID= 
Genus PTEROPUS Ns 
PrEROPUS poliocephalus 


- brunneus 

Aa gouldi 

Re conspicillatus 
- scapulatus .. 


Genus NyCTIMENE 
NYCTIMENE papuanus 
Pe robinsoni .. 
Family KiopoTip#.. 5 
Genus ODONTONYCTERIS 
ODONTONYCTERIS 
pygmeus crore ae 
Ll. nanus rena 
Genus SYCONYCTERIS .. 
SyconycrTeEeRiIs australis 
Suborder MicROCHIROPTERA 
Family RHINOLOPHIDA .. 
Genus RHINOPHYLLOTIS 
RHINOPHYLLOTIS ee 
phyllus s 
Family HrrrostpERiDa& 
Genus RHINONICTERIS 
RHINONICTERIS aurantius 
Genus HIPPOSIDEROS .. 
HIPPOSIDEROS cervinus 
ES albanensis 


85 
85 
86 
86 
86 
86 
86 
87 
87 
87 
87 
87 
87 
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88 
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88 


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CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 


PaGE. 

Class MamMan1a—Continued. 
HIPPOSIDEROS semoni .. 93 
A stenotis 93 
Family MEGADERMIDE .. 94 
Genus MACRODERMA .. 94 
MACRODERMA gigas .. 94 
Family VESPERTILIONIDE 94 
Genus NycropHitus .. 94 
NyctopHiuus geoffroyt 94 
aS timoriensis 95 
re Otfdg) = 9D 
a deedalus 95 
a walkert .. 95 
Genus VESPADELUS .. 95 
VESPADELUS pumilus .. 95 
Genus PIPISTRELLUS .. 96 


PIPISTRELLUS abramus 96 
pe regulus .. 96 


Genus GLISCHROPUS .. 96 
GLISCHROPUS tasmani- 
CNOA ue Mak oe. ame 
Genus CHALINOLOBUS 97 
CHALINOLOBUS gouldii 97 
sf morio 97 
Pe picatus 97 
ee rogersi oF 
Genus SCOTEINUS ian 98 
ScoTEInus ruppellii .. 98 
35 grey Soran! 


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ScorTEInus tnfluaius 98 
re balstoni 98 
Genus Myoris 98 
Myoris macropus. . 98 
ie australis .. 98 
Genus PHONISCUS 98 
PHONISCUS papuensis.. 99 
Genus MINIOPTERUS 99 
MINIoprEeRvs blepotis .. 99 
55 australis] 99 
a oriancee .. 99 
Family TAPHOZOID a 99 
Genus TAPHOZOUS 99 
TapHozous australis 99 
ey georgianus 99 
Genus SACCOLAIMUS 100 
SaccoLarmus flaviventris 100 
$5 nudicluni- 
atus .. 100 
Family MoLossrp a 100 
Genus AustRonomus .. 100 
AUSTRONOMUS australis 100 
Genus MicronomMuUS 100 
Micronomus nor fol k- 
ensis .. 100 
i. planiceps 101 
Genus CH&REPHON 101 
CH@EREPHON colonicus.. 101 
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A CHECK-LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF AUSTRALIA. 


1800. 


1799. 


1800. 


(a) 
1799. 


1800. 
1807. 
1807. 
1832. 


1832. 


(b) 
1923. 


By Tom IREDALE and ELLIS LE G. TROUGHTON. 


Class MAMMALIA. 


Sub-class MONOTREMATA. 
(ORNITHODELPHIA or PROTOTHERIA.) 
MONOTREMES. 


Family ORNITHORHYNCHIDA. 


Genus ORNITHORHYNCHUS Blumenbach, 1800. 

Ornithorhynchus Blumenbach, Gdétting. Gelehrt. Anz. i, 
pp. 609-610 (Apl. 19, fide Palmer); Abh. Nat. Gegen., 
No. 41 (fide Sherborn); Voigt’s Mag. Naturk. ii, 1, 
p. 205 (fide Sherborn). Haplotype, O. paradoxus 
Blumenbach. 

Platypus Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., x, pl. 385, June. 
Haplotype, P. anatinus Shaw and Nodder. Not Platypus 
Jablonsky, Nat. Ins. (Kafer), v, p. 128, 1793. 

Dermipus Wiedemann, Arch. fiir Zool. i, 1, p. 180. New 
name for Platypus Shaw and Nodder. 


ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS Shaw and Nodder, 1799. 
THE PLATYPUS. 


Ornithorhynchus anatinus anatinus Shaw and Nodder, 1799. 
Platypus anatinus Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell. x, pls. 
385-386, June. “‘ New Holland ’ Sydney, N.S.W. 
Ornithorhynchus paradoxus Blumenbach, Voigt’s Mag. Naturk. 

ji, 1, p. 205 (fide Sherborn). Sydney, N.S.W. 

Ornithorincus fuscus Péron, Voy. Terres Austr. Atlas, pl. xxxiv, 
figs. 1, 3, 5, 6. About Sydney, N.S.W. 

Ornithorincus rufus Péron, Voy. Terres Austr. Atlas, pl. xxxiv, 
figs. 2,4, 7,8. About Sydney, N.S.W. 

Ornithorhynchus brevirostris Ogilby, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.) 1831, p. 150 (Jan. 16, 1832). Swan River 
(Lieut. Matthew Friend), error—New South Wales. 

Ornithorynchus levis Macgillivray, Mem. Werner. Soc. 
(Edinb.) vi, p. 132, Jan. New name for rufus, ete. 

Coastal New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 


Ornithorhynchus anatinus triton Thomas, 1923. 

Ornithorhynchus anatinus triton Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (9) xi, p. 178, Jan. 1. Deniliquin, west of Dividing 
Range, N.S.W. 

Western New South Wales. 


(d) 
1832. 


(a) 
L792. 


1802. 


1808. 
1809. 


1813. 
1827. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 


Ornithorhynchus anatinus phozinus Thomas, 1923. 

Orniihorhynchus anatinus phoxinus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (9) xi, p. 176, Jan. 1. Ravenshoe, North Queens- 
land (T. Sherrin). 

Northern Queensland. 


Ornithorhynchus anatinus crispus Macgillivray, 1832. 

Ornithorynchus anatinus crispus Macgillivray, Mem. Werner. 
Soc. (Edinb.) vi, p. 128, Jan. Tasmania. 

Tasmania. 


Family TACHYGLOSSID AS. 
Spiny ANT-EATERS OR ECHIDNAS. 
Genus TACHYGLOSSUS Illiger, 1811. 


Lachyglossus Illiger, Prod. Syst. Mamm. et Avium, p. 114 
(pref. April). New name for Echidna Cuvier. Haplo- 
type, Myrmecophaga aculeata Shaw and Noddeyr. 

Echidna Cuvier, Tabl. Elem. Hist. Nat., p. 143, Jan. 
Haplotype, Myrmecophaga aculeata Shaw and Nodder. 
Not Hehidna Forster, Enchiridion, p. 81, 1788, March 27. 

Acanthonotus Goldfuss, Vergl. Naturb. Saugth., pp. xix and 
308 (fide Sherborn). Haplotype, A. myrmecophagus 
Goldfuss. Not Acanthonotus Bloch, Ichtyologie, xii, 
105 IL, WGA 

Echinopus G. Fischer, Zoognosia, ii, pp. 570-592, ex i, p. 14, 
1813, nom. nud. New name for Echidna Cuvier. 

Syphomia Rafinesque, Analyse Nat., p. 57. New name for 
Echidna Cuvier. 

Aculeata Geoffroy, Bull. Sci. Soe. Philom. (Paris) i, pp. 
102-103, Apl—June. Not used generically : cf. Thomas, 
Ann. Mus. Civ. Str. Genova (2) xviii, p. 621, 1897.] 


TACHYGLOSSUS ACULEATUS Shaw and Nodder, 1792. 
Spiny ANT-EATER OR ECHIDNA. 


Tachyglossus aculeatus aculeatus Shaw and, Nodder, 1792. 

Myrmecophaga aculeata Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell. iii, 
pl. cix, July 1. New Holland=Sydney, N.S.W. 

Ornithorhynchus hystrix Home, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond., 
1802, pt. ii, p. 348, pl. x(-xiii), read June 3. New 
name for M. aculeata Shaw and Nodder (not in Sherborn). 

Echidna longiaculeata Tiedemann, Zool., i, p. 592. New name 
for M. aculeata Shaw and Nodder (fide Sherborn). 

Acanthonotus myrmecophagus Goldfuss, Vergl. Naturb. 
Saugth., pp. xix and 308. Based upon Porcupine Ant- 
Eater of Pennant. 

Echidna novehollandie Fischer, Zoognosia, ii, p. 444. Nom. 
nud. (Not in Sherborn). 

Echidna australiensis Lesson, Man. Mamm., p. 318, May. 
New name for aculeata and setosa. (Not in Sherborn). 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 3 


1829. Ornithorhynchus eracinius [James Mudie], The Picture of 
Australia, p. 180 (177 ericinius), Oct. Australia. (Not 
in Sherborn.) 


1835. Echidna australiensis Gervais, Dict. Pitt. d’Hist. Nat., ii, 
1588 livre, p. 623, as of Lesson. (Not in Sherborn.) 


1838. Echidna australis Lesson, Compl. de Buffon, 2nd ed., i, pl. 
opp. p. 460. New name for aculeata. (Not in Sherborn.) 


1909. Echidna sydneiensis Kowarzik, Zool. Anzeiger, 35, p. 214, 
Dec. 7. New name for aculeata. 


New South Wales, Victoria. 


(b) Tachyglossus aculeatus acanthion Collett, 1884. 


1884. Echidna acanthion Collett, Forh. Vid. Selsk., 1884, No. 13 ; 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1885, p. 148, pl. x. Rock- 
hampton, Queensland (Lumholtz). 


Queensland. 


(c)  Tachyglossus aculeatus multiaculeatus Rothschild, 1905. 


1905. Echidna hystrix multiaculeatus Rothschild, Nov. Zool., xii, 
p. 306, Sept. 20. Extreme south of South Australia. 


South Australia. 


(d) Tachyglossus aculeatus ineptus Thomas, 1906. 


1906. Tachyglossus aculeatus ineptus Thomas, Abstr. Proc. Zool. 
Soe. (Lond.) 1906, No. 31, p. 2, May 8; Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.) 1906, p. 477, October. Southern Cross, 
South-West Australia (G. C. Shortridge). 


South-West Australia. 


TACHYGLOSSUS SETOSUS Geoffroy, 1803. 
HAIRY OR TASMANIAN SPINY ANT-EATER, OR ECHIDNA. 


1803. Echidna setosa B. Geoffroy, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. (Paris), 
No. 77, p. 126. (Fide Sherborn.) Tasmania. 


1808. Hchidna breviaculeata Tiedemann, Zoologie, i, p. 592. New 
name for H#. setosa Geoffroy. (Fide Sherborn.) 


1810. Platypus longirostra Perry, Arcana, x, March. Tasmania. 


1865. Echidna brevicaudata Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1865, 
p. 386, Aug. 25. Grayism only. 


1909. Echidna hobartensis Kowarzik, Zool. Anzeiger, 35, p. 215, 
Dec. 7. New name for setosa. 
Tasmania. 


oe 


1841. 


1923. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Sub-class MARSUPIALIA. 
(DIDELPHIA or METATHERIA.) 
MARSUPIALS. 


Suborder POLYPROTODONTIA. 
Family DASYURIDAL. 
Subfamily PHASCOGALIN A. 


Genus ANTECHINUS Macleay, 1841. 
BROAD-FOOTED MARSUPIAL MICE. 
Antechinus Macleay, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., viii, p. 242, Dec. 
Haplotype, A. stuartii Macleay. 


ANTECHINUS FLAVIPES Waterhouse, 1838. 
YELLOW-FOOTED MARSUPIAL MOUSE. 


Antechinus flavipes flavipes Waterhouse, 1838. 

Phascogale flavipes Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1837, p. 75, Jan. 22, 1838. North of Hunter River, 
N.S.W. (Thomas). 

Antechinus stuartii Macleay, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., viii, 
p. 242, pl. vii, Dec. Spring Cove, Sydney Harbour, 
1.e.. Manly, N.S.W. After J. Stuart. 

Antechinus unicolor Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. vi (vol. i, 
pl. 37). Sydney, N.S.W. 

[Myrmecobius ? rufus Mitchell, Two Exped. Austr., i, p. xvii, 
1838 (pref. Aug. 18).] 

New South Wales, Victoria. 


Antechinus flavipes rufogaster Gray, 1841. 

Phascogale rufogaster Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Austr. (Grey), 
ii, App., pp. 407, 401, Nov. South Australia (Gould). 

South Australia. 


Antechinus flavipes leucogaster Gray, 1841. 

Phascogale leucogaster Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Austr. 
(Grey), ii, App., pp. 407, 401, Nov. Banks of the 
Canning River, S.W. Australia. 

South-western Australia. 


Antechinus flavipes burrelli Le Souef and Burrell, 1926. 

Phascogale flavipes burrelli Le Souef and Burrell, Wild Anim. 
Austr., p. 334, fig. 92, ew Le Souef MS. LEbor, northern 
N.S.W. 

Northern New South Wales, southern Queensland. 


Antechinus flavipes adustus Thomas, 1923. 

Phascogale flavipes adusta Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), 
xi, p. 175, Jan. Ravenshoe, North Queensland (T. 
Sherrin). 

Northern Queensland. 


1923. 


. 1904. 


(a) 


1840. 


1883. 
1884. 


1884. 


(b) 
1924. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 5 


ANTECHINUS GODMANI Thomas, 1923. 
GODMAN’S MARSUPIAL MOUSE. 


Phascogale godmani Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xi, 
p. 174, Jan. Ravenshoe, North Queensland (T. Sherrin). 
Northern Queensland. 


ANTECHINUS BELLUS Thomas, 1904. 
FAWN MARSUPIAL MOUSE. 


Phascogale bella Thomas, Nov. Zool., xi, p. 229, March 25. 
South Alligator River, Northern Territory (Tunney). 
North Australia. 


ANTECHINUS SWAINSONIL Waterhouse, 1840. 
SOMBRE OR DuSKy MARSUPIAL MOUSE. 


Antechinus swainsonii swainsonii Waterhouse, 1840. 

Phascogale swainsoniti Waterhouse, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charles- 
worth) iv, p. 299, June. Tasmania. 

Antechinus niger Higgins and Petterd, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 
1882, p. 172. Upper Piper, Tasmania (Sultzberger). 
Antechinus moore Higgins and Petterd, Proc. Roy. Soc. 
Tasm., 1883, p. 182, ante June 25, 1884. Long Plains, 

Tasmania (T. B. Moore). 

Antechinus moorei var. assimilis Higgins and Petterd, Proc. 
Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1883, p. 185, ante June 25, 1884. 
West coast Tasmania. 

Tasmania, Victoria. 


Antechinus swainsonii mimetes Thomas, 1924. 

Phasecogale swainsonii mimetes Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) xiv, p. 528, Nov. Guy Fawkes District, northern 
N.S.W. (Wilkins). 

Northern New South Wales. 


ANTECHINUS MINIMUS Geoffroy, 1803. 
LITTLE TASMANIAN MARSUPIAL MovwsE. 


Dasyurus minimus Geoffroy, Bull. Sci. Soe. Philom. (Paris), 
No. 81, p. 159, December (fide Sherborn). Tasmania. 

Dasyurus minimus Geoffroy, Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. Paris, 
lili, p. 362, Feb. New Holland—Tasmania. 

Phascogale affinis Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Austr. (Grey) ii, 
App., pp. 406, 401, Nov. Tasman’s Peninsula, Tasmania 
(Gould). 

Antechinus rolandensis Higgins and Petterd, Proc. Roy. 
Soc. Tasm., 1882, p. 171. Mount Roland, Tasmania. 

Antechinus concinnus Higgins and Petterd, Proc. Roy. Soc. 
Tasm., 1883, p. 184, ante June 25, 1884. Tasmania. 

Tasmania, and islands of Bass Strait. 


(b) 
1926. 


1896. 


1906. 


1842. 


1928. 


(a) 
1906. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


ANTECHINUS MACULATUS Gould, 1851. 
Piemy ANTECHINUS. 

Antechinus maculatus maculatus Gould, 1851. 

Antechinus maculatus Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. iii (vol. 1, 
pl. xliv) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1851, p. 284, June 14, 
1854. Clarence River, N.S.W. (Strange). 

Antechinus minutissimus Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. iv (vol. i, 
pl. xlv); Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1851, p. 284, June 14, 
1854. Moreton Bay, East Australia (Strange). 

Podabrus minutus Schmeltz, Mus. Godeffroy Cat., vii, p. 3, May 
(as of Gould). Queensland. Nom. nud. (error for 
above 2). 

Northern New South Wales, southern Queensland. 


Antechinus maculatus sinualis Thomas, 1926. 

Phascogale minutissima sinualis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (9) xvii, p. 634, June. Groote Eylandt, Gulf of 
Carpentaria, North Australia (Wilkins). 

North Australia (Groote Eylandt). 


ANTECHINUS MACDONNELLENSIS Spencer, 1896. 
FAT-TAILED ANTECHINUS. 

Phascogale macdonnellensis Spencer, Rept. Horn. Sci. Exped. 
Centr. Austr., Zool., ii, p. 27, pl. ii, fig. 1 a-e, pl. iv, 
figs. 9-12, Feb. Alice Springs, Central Australia (Coll. 
South). 

Central Australia. 


ANTECHINUS MIMULUS Thomas, 1906. 
NORTHERN FAT-TAILED ANTECHINUS. 
Phascogale mimulus Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1906, 
p. 540, Oct. Alexandria, Northern Territory (Stalker). 
North Australia. 


ANTECHINUS APICALIS Gray, 1842. 
FRECKLED MARSUPIAL MOUSE. 
Phascogale apicalis Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ix, p. 518, 
Aug. “ Australasia ’’=South-Western Australia. 
South-Western Australia. 


Genus PLANIGALE Troughton, 1928. 
FLAT-SKULLED MARSUPIAL MICE. 
Planigale Troughton, Rec. Austr. Mus., xvi, p. 282, June 11. 
Orthotype, Planigale ingrami brunneus Troughton. 


PLANIGALE INGRAMI Thomas, 1906. 
NORTHERN PLANIGALE. 
Planigale ingrami ingrami Thomas, 1906. 
Phascogale ingrami Thomas, Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1906, No. 32, p. 6, May 22; Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) — 


(b) 


1928. 


1928. 


1913. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON,. i 


1906, p. 541, pl. xxxvii, fig. 2, Oct. Alexandria, Northern 
Territory (Stalker). 
North Australia. 


Planigale ingrami brunneus Troughton, 1928. 

Planigale ingrami brunneus Troughton, Rec. Austr. Mus., 
Xvi, p. 282, pl. xxxix, figs. la-b, June 11. Wyangarie, 
Richmond District, North Queensland (F. L. Berney). 

North Queensland. 


PLANIGALE TENUIROSTRIS Troughton, 1928. 
SLENDER-NOSED PLANIGALE. 

Planigale tenuirostris Troughton, Rec. Austr. Mus., xvi, 
p. 285, pl. xxxix, fig. 2a-g, June 11. Bourke or 
Wilcannia, N.S.W. 

Western New South Wales. 


PLANIGALE SUBTILISSIMA Lonnberg, 1913. 
WESTERN OR LITTLE PLANIGALE. 

Phascogale subtilissima Lonnberg, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. 
Handl., lii, 1, p. 9, Sept. 26. Noonkambah, Kimberley 
District, North-Western Australia. 

North-Western Australia. 


Genus PHASCOGALE Temminck, 1824. 
BRUSH-TAILED MARSUPIAL RATS. 

Phascogale Temminck, Mon. Mamm., i, pp. xxiii, 23, 56. 
Orthotype, Didelphis penicillata Shaw. 

Ascogale Gloger, Hand- u. Hilfsb. Nat., i, pp. xxx, 183, 
ante May. New name for Phascogale, cf. Thomas, Ann. 
Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xv, p. 190, Feb. 1, 1895. 

Tapoa Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Regn. Anim. Mamm., p. 190, Nov. 
Haplotype, Tapoa tafa Lesson. 

Phascoloictis Matschie, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 1916, p. 263, 
April. Orthotype, Phascogale calura Gould. 


PHASCOGALE TAPOATAFA Meyer, 1793. 
LARGE BRUSH-TAILED PHASCOGALE. 

Phascogale tapoatafa tapoatafa Meyer, 1793. 

Viverra tapoatafa Meyer, Zool. Entdeck., p. 28; based on 
the Tapoa Tafa or Tapha of White, p. 281. Sydney, 
N.S.W. 

Didelphis penicillata Shaw, Gen. Zool. (Mamm.) i, pt. 2, 
p. 502, pl. 113, plate dated Feb.1. No locality =Sydney. 

Dasyurus tafa Geoffroy, Bull. Sci. Soe. Philom. (Paris), No. 
81, p. 159 (fide Sherborn). 

Dasyurus tafa Geoffroy, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris), iii, p. 
360, Feb.; based on White’s Tapoa Tafa, tab. 281. 
Dasyurus tafa Tiedemann, Zool. i, p. 429 (fide Sherborn). 
Southern Australia, from south Queensland to Western 

Australia. 


1844. 


1875. 


1867. 


1919. 


1867. 


1905. 


1904. 


1910. 


1896. 


1896. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Phascogale tapoatafa pirata Thomas, 1904. 

Phascogale penicillata pirata Thomas, Nov. Zool., xi, p. 228, 
March 25. South Alligator River, Northern Territory 
(Tunney). 


Nerth Australia. 


PHASCOGALE CALURA Gould, 1844. 
WAMBERGER OR RED-TAILED PHASCOGALE. 
Phascogale calura Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1844, p. 104, 
Oct. (Williams River) Interior West Australia (Gilbert). 
South-western Australia, South Australia and Victoria (fide 
Spencer). 


Genus DASYCERCUS Peters, 1875. 


Dasycereus Peters, Sitz. Gesell. Nat. Freunde, Berlin, 1875, 
p. 73. New name for Chetocercus Krefft. Haplotype, 
Cheetocercus cristicauda Kreftt. 

Cheetocercus Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1866, p. 434, 
April 25, 1867. Haplotype, C. cristicauda Krefft. Not 
Chatocercus G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, 1855, 
De 22% 

Amperta Cabrera, Gen. Mamm., p. 65. New name for 
Chetocercus Krefft. 


DASYCERCUS CRISTICAUDA Krefft. 
CREST-TAILED MARSUPIAL MOUSE. 

Chetocercus cristicauda Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 
1866, p. 435, pl. xxxvi, April 25, 1867. South Australia 
(probably Lake Alexandrina ; ex F. G. Waterhouse). 

Phascogale hillierti Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xvi, 
p. 427, Oct. Killalpanina, east of Lake Eyre, South 
Australia. 

South Australia. 


DASYCERCUS BLYTHI Waite, 1904. 
BiyTH’s DASYCERCUS. 
Phascogale blythi Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., v, p. 123, Jan. 28. 
Pilbarra District, mid-West Australia. 
Phascogale blighi Shortridge, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1909, 
pp. 804, 840, 842, er Woodward MS. nom. nud. Pilbarra, 
Western Australia. 


Mid-Western Australia. 


Genus DASYUROIDES Spencer, 1896. 

Dasyuroides Spencer, Rept. Horn Sci. Exped. Centr. Austr., 
Zool. ii, p. 36, Feb. Haplotype, D. byrnei Spencer. 
Dasyuroides Spencer, Proc. Roy. Soe. Vict., viii (n.s.), p. 5, 

April. (Prelim. deser. !) 


1896. 


1896. 


1906. 


1887. 


1845. 


(a) 


1844. 


(b) 


1902. 


(¢) 
1845. 


1932. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 9 


DASYUROIDES BYRNEI Spencer, 1896. 
BYRNE'S CREST-TAILED MARSUPIAL Rat. 

Dasyuroides byrnet Spencer, Rept. Horn Sci. Exped. Centr. 
Austr., Zool. ii, p. 36, pls. iii and iv, figs. 1-4, Feb. 
Charlotte Waters, Central Australia (P. M. Byrne). 

Dasyuroides byrnei Spencer, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., viii (n.s.), 
p. 6, April (prelim. descr. !). 

Dasyuroides byrnei pallidior Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(7) xvii, p. 330, March. Killalpanina, east of Lake 
Eyre, South Australia (H. J. Hillier). 

Central and South Australia. 


Genus SMINTHOPSIS Thomas, 1887. 

Sminthopsis Thomas, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Genova (2) iv, 
p. 503, April 9. New name for Podabrus Gould. Haplo- 
type, Phascogale crassicaudata Gould. 

Podabrus Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. 1 (letterpress to pl. 
xlvii, vol. i), May. Haplotype, Phascogale crassicaudata 
Gould. Not Podabrus Westwood, Introd. Insect., ii, 
Synopsis, p. 27, 1840, ex G. Fischer, Entom. Imp. Russ., 
i, 1821, p. 36 (nom. nud.) 


SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA Gould, 1844. 
FAT-TAILED MARSUPIAL MOUSE. 
Sminthopsis crassicaudata crassicaudata Gould, 1844. 
Phascogale crassicaudata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 
1844, p. 105, Oct. (Williams River) Western Australia 
(Gilbert). 
South-Western Australia. 


Sminthopsis ecrassicaudata centralis Thomas, 1902. 

Sminthopsis crassicaudatus centralis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (7) x, p. 492, Dec. 1. Killalpanina, east of Lake 
Eyre, South Australia (H. J. Hillier). 

Central and South Australia. 


Sminthopsis crassicaudata macrura Gould, 1845. 

Podabrus macrurus Gould, Proe. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, 
p. 79, Oct. Darling Downs, N.S.W., i.e. South 
Queensland. 


South Queensland, northern New South Wales. 


SMINTHOPSIS GRANULIPES Troughton, 1932. 
(GRANULE-FOOTED SMINTHOPSIS. 

Sminthopsis granulipes Troughton, Rec. Austr. Mus., xviii, 
p. 350, fig. 1, April 20. King George’s Sound, South- 
Western Australia. 

South-Western Australia. 


10 


1887. 


1896. 


1896. 


1897. 


1895. 


1906. 


(a) 


1838. 


(c) 


1852. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


SMINTHOPSIS FROGGATTI Ramsay, 1887. 
FROGGATT’S SMINTHOPSIS. 

Antechinus (Podabrus) froggattti Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W. (2) ii, p. 552, Nov. 30. King Sound, near Derby, 
N.W. Australia (W. W. Froggatt). 

North-Western Australia. 


SMINTHOPSIS LARAPINTA Spencer, 1896. 
STRIPED-HEAD SMINTHOPSIS. 

Sminthopsis larapinta Spencer, Rept. Horn Sci. Exped. 
Centr. Austr., Zool. ii, p. 33, pl. ii, fig. 2a—-b, Feb. 
Charlotte Waters, Central Australia (P. M. Byrne). 

Sminthopsis larapinta Spencer, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., viii 
(n.s.), p. 8, April (prelim. descr. !). 

Sminthopsis nitela Collett, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1897, 
p. 834, Aug. 1. Daly River, Northern Territory (Dahl). 

North, Central, and South Australia. 


SMINTHOPSIS PSAMMOPHILA Spencer, 1895. 
LARGE DESERT SMINTHOPSIS. 
Sminthopsis psammophilus Spencer, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 
vii (n.s.), p. 223, Jan. Lake Amadeus, Central Australia. 
Central Australia. 


SMINTHOPSIS STALKERI Thomas, 1906. 
STALKER’S FAT-TAILED SMINTHOPSIS. 

Sminthopsis stalkeri Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1906, 
p. 548, Oct. Alroy and Alexandria, Northern Territory 
(Stalker). 

North Australia. 


SMINTHOPSIS MURINA Waterhouse, 1838. 
SLENDER MOUSE-SMINTHOPSIS. 

Sminthopsis murina murina Waterhouse, 1838. 

Phascogale murina Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 
1837, p. 76, Jan. 22, 1838. North of Hunter’s River, 
N.S.W. 

New South Wales and southern Queensland. 


Sminthopsis murina albipes Waterhouse, 1842. 

Phascogale albipes Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1842, p. 48, Nov. Port Adelaide, South Australia 
(J. B. Harvey, ? Port Lincoln). 

South Australia, Victoria. 


Sminthopsis murina fuliginosa Gould, 1852. 

Antechinus fuliginosus Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. 4 (vol. i, 
pl. xli). King George’s Sound, W. Australia (Gilbert). 

South-Western Australia. 


(d) 


1896. 


(a) 


1842. 


(b) 


1854. 
1867. 


1909. 


1847. 


1887. 


1898. 


1867. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 11 


Sminthopsis murina constricta Spencer, 1896. 

Sminthopsis murina var. constricta Spencer, Rept. Horn Sci. 
Exped. Centr. Austr., Zool. ii, p. 33, Feb. Oodnadatta, 
Central Australia. 


Central Australia. 


SMINTHOPSIS LEUCOPUS Gray, 1842. 
WHITE-FOOTED SMINTHOPSIS. 
Sminthopsis leucopus leucopus Gray, 1842. 
Phascogale leucopus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., x, p. 261, Dec. 
Australia (B.M.)=Tasmania. 
Tasmania. 


Sminthopsis leucopus ferruginifrons Gould, 1854. 

Antechinus ferruginifrons Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. vi 
(vol. i, pl. xxxvi). Sydney, N.S.W. 

Podabrus mitchell Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1866, 
p. 433, April 25, 1867. Interior of New South Wales 
(Sir T. Mitchell); type in Aust. Mus. 

New South Wales, Victoria. 


SMINTHOPSIS LONGICAUDATA Spencer, 1909. 
LONG-TAILED SMINTHOPSIS. 


Sminthopsis longicaudata Spencer, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. 
(n.s.), p. 449, March. West Australia @/ Keartland). GU: 
Western Australia. 


[SMINTHOPSIS VIRGINIZ Tarragon, 1847. 


Phascogale virginie Tarragon, Revue Zool., 1847, p. 177, July. 
No locality ; type lost.] 


SMINTHOPSIS LUMHOLTZI nom. nov. 
LUMHOLT2Z’S SMINTHOPSIS. 


Phascologale virginie Collett, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1886, 
p. 548, pl. lx, April 1, 1887. Herbert Vale, North 
Queensland (Lumholtz). Not of Tarragon, supra. 

North Queensland. 


SMINTHOPSIS HIRTIPES Thomas, 1898. 
HAIRY-FOOTED SMINTHOPSIS. 


Sminthopsis hirtipes Thomas, Nov. Zool., v, p. 3, March 15. 
Charlotte Waters, Central Australia. 


Central and South Australia. 


Genus ANTECHINOMYS Krefft, 1867. 


Antechinomys Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1866, p. 434, 
April 25, 1867. Haplotype, Phascogale lanigera Gould. 


12 


1856. 


1906. 


ING. 


1841. 


1909. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


ANTECHINOMYS LANIGER Gould, 1856. 
LITTLE OR HASTERN JERBOA-MARSUPIAL. 

Phascogale lanigera Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. 8 (vol. i, pl. 
xxxiii). Interior of Australia (Sir T. Mitchell) Interior 
of New South Wales. 

North-western Victoria, interior of New South Wales, south- 
western Queensland. 


ANTECHINOMYS SPENCERI Thomas, 1906. 
GREATER OR CENTRAL JERBOA-MARSUPIAL. 
Antechinomys spencert Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xvii, 
p. 331, March. Charlotte Waters, Central Australia 
(Horn Expedition, Spencer). 
Central and South Australia. 


Subfamily DASYURIN A. 
NATIVE CATS: TASMANIAN DEVIL. 
Genus DASYURUS Geoffroy, 1796. 

Dasyurus Geoffroy, Mag. Eneyclop. (2) iii, p. 469 (fide 
Sherborn). Haplotype, Spotted Cuscus Opossum of 
Phillip (cf. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, iii, p. 358, Feb., 
1804) = Didelphis maculata Kerr = Mustela  quoll 
Zimmermann. 

Nasira Harvey (J. B.), South Austr. Mag., i, p. 210, Dec. ; 
for Native Cat, Port Lincoln. 

Nasira Zeitz (A.), Proc. Roy. Geogr. Soc. Austr., South 
Austr. Branch, x, p. 180; interpretation of Harvey’s 
list. Haplotype, Dasyurus viverrinus. ; 


DASYURUS QUOLL Zimmermann, 1777. 
CoMMON EASTERN NATIVE Cart. 

Mustela quoll Zimmermann, Spec. Zool., p. 489 (fide Sherborn), 
based on Quoll, Hawkesworth, Cook Voy., iii, p. 222 
(626 in our copy), 1773. Bare Island, Botany Bay, 
N.S.W. 

Didelphis maculata Kerr, Anim. Kingdom (Linne), p. 199 
(pref. Feb.), for Spotted Opossum of Phillip= Sydney, 
N.S.W. (Turton, vol. i, p. 68, 1806.) 

Dasyurus~maculatus Lacépede, Tabl. Mamm., p. 5 (fide 
Sherborn). 

Didelphis viverrina Shaw, Gen. Zool., i, pt. 2, p. 491, pl. cxi, 
dated Feb. 1, for White, Journal, pp. 281, 285. Sydney, 
N.S.W. 

Dasyurus maugei Geoffroy, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. (Paris), 
No. 81, p. 159, December. 

Dasyurus maugeit Geoffroy, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, iii, 
p. 359, Feb. Coll. Mauge=South Tasmania. 

Dasyurus guttatus Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., 
1st ed., xxiv, p. 10, March. 


1854. 


1866. 


LOG: 


1926. 


(a) 
1841, 


(b) 
1906. 


1926. 


(a) 
1842. 


(b) 
1909. 


(C) 


1926. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. ay 


Didelphys alboguttata Wied, Beitr, ii, p. 412, ew Burmeister 
MS. Brazil, error fide Goeldi, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1894, p. 466, Oct. 1=Sydney, N.S.W. 

Phalangista viverrina var. victorie M‘Coy, Intercol. Exhib., 
1866/7, Essays, No. 7, p. 309 (reprint, p. 3), nom. nud. ; 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xx, p. 175, Sept. 1, 1867, nom. 
nud. Victoria. 

South Australia (extinct ?), Victoria, New South Wales, 
Tasmania. 


Genus DASYURINUS Matschie, 1916. 
Dasyurinus Matschie, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 1916, p. 262, 
April. Orthotype, Dasyurus geoffroit Gould. 
Notoctonus Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1926, p. 1082, 
Dec. Orthotype, Dasyurus geoffrovi Gould. 


DASYURINUS GEOFFROIL Gould, 1841. 
BLACK-TAILED NATIVE CAT. 
Dasyurinus geoffrott geoffrow Gould, 1841. : 
Dasyurus geoffroti Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, 
p. 151, July 1841. Liverpool Plains, N.S.W. 
New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia (extinct ?), 
North Australia. 


Dasyurinus geoffroii fortis Thomas, 1906. 

Dasyurus geoffroyi fortis Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1906, p. 476, Oct. Arthur River and Wagin, South- 
Western Australia (Shortridge). 

South-Western Australia. 


Genus SATANELLUS Pocock, 1926. 
Satanellus Pocock, Proe. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1926, p. 1083, Dee. 
Orthotype, Dasyurus hallucatus Gould. 


SATANELLUS HALLUCATUS Gould, 1842. 
LirtLE NORTHERN NATIVE Cat. 
Satanellus hallucatus hallueatus Gould, 1842. 
Dasyurus hallucatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, 
p. 41, Nov. Port Essington. 
North Australia. 


Satanellus hallucatus exilis Thomas, 1909. 

Dasyurus hallucatus exilis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 
iii, p. 152, Feb. Parry’s Creek, N.W. Australia (J. P. 
Rogers). 

North-Western Australia. 


Satanellus hallucatus predator Thomas, 1926. 

Dasyurus hallucatus predator Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) xviii, p. 543, Nov. Utingu, Cape York, N. Queensland 
(Kemp). 

Northern Queensland (Cape York). 


Fe eR en een 


katana 


14 
(d) 


1926. 


IOI. 
1926. 


1792. 


1793. 
13803. 


1888. 


1837. 


1841. 


1841. 


1841. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Satanellus hallucatus neseus Thomas, 1926. 

Dasyurus hallucatus neseus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) xviii, p. 544, Nov. Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpen- 
taria, N. Australia (Wilkins). 

North Australia (Groote Eylandt). 


Genus DASYUROPS Matschie, 1916. 
Dasyurops Matschie, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 1916, p. 262, 
April. Orthotype, Viverra maculata Kerr. 
Stictophonus Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1926, p. 1083, 
December. Orthotype, Viverra maculata Kerr. 


DASYUROPS MACULATUS Kerr, 1792. 

TIGER CAT: LARGE SPOTTED-TAILED NATIVE CAT. 

Vwerra maculata Kerr, Anim. Kingdom (Linné) p. 170 
(pref. Feb.) (Turton, i, p. 56, 1806) for the Spotted Marten 
of Phillip. Port Jackson, N.S.W. 

Mustela novehollandie Meyer, Zool. Entdeck, p. 27, for 
Spotted Marten of Phillip, p. 276. Port Jackson, N.S.W. 

Dasyurus macrourus Geoffroy, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. (Paris), 
No. 81, p. 159; Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, iii, p. 358, 
Feb., 1804, for Spotted Marten of Phillip, p. 276. Port 
Jackson, N.S.W. 

South-eastern Queensland, eastern New South Wales, Victoria, 
south-eastern South Australia, Tasmania. 


DASYUROPS GRACILIS Ramsay, 1888. 
LITTLE SPOTTED-TAILED NATIVE CAT. 

Dasyurus gracilis Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) iii, 
p. 1296, Dec. 7. Bellenden Ker Range, N. Queensland 
(Cairn and Grant). 

North Queensland. 


Genus SARCOPHILUS Geoffroy and Cuvier, 1837. 


Sarcophilus Geoffroy and Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm., iv. 
(pt. 60), Sarcophile, p. 6, Aug.; ea F. Cuvier MS (fide 
Sherborn). Haplotype, Didelphis ursina Harris = Ursinus 
harrisw Boitard. 

Ursinus Boitard, Jardin des Plantes, p. 290, “1842 ’=Aug., 
1841 (fide Sherborn). Haplotype, U. harrisii Boitard. 

Diabolus Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Austr. (Grey) ii, App. 
p. 400, Nov. Haplotype, Didelphis ursina Harris. 


SARCOPHILUS HARRISI Boitard, 1841. 
TASMANIAN DEVIL. 
Ursinus harrisii Boitard, Jardin des Plantes, p. 290, “1842 ” = 
Aug., 1841, for Dasyurus ursinus Geoffroy =ursina 
Harris. Tasmania. 


1808. 


1903. 


1824. 


1825. 


1827. 


1830. 


1841 


1843. 


1808. 
1824. 
1831. 
1833. 
1868. 


1836. 


1836. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 15 


Didelphis ursina Harris, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.) ix, p. 176, 
pl. xix, 2. Tasmania. Notin Sherborn. Not Didelphis 
ursina Shaw, Gen. Zool. i, pt. 2, p. 504, 1800. 

Sarcophilus satanicus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. lenis, (1) sal 
p. 289, March. New name for D. ursinus Geoffroy. 

Tasmania. 


Subfamily THYLACININ AS. 
Genus THYLACINUS Temminck, 1824. 

Thylacinus Temminck, Mon. Mamm., i, pp. xxiii, 23, 60, 267. 
Haplotype, 7. harrisii Temminck—=Didelphis cynocephala 
Harris. 

Peracyon Gray, Ann. Philos. (Thomson) xxvi (.8., X), D. 340, 
Nov. Nom. nud.; Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus., 
p. 133, 1862 (used validly). 

Paracyon Griffith, Smith and Pidgeon, Anim. Kingdom 
(Cuvier) v, p. 192, ex Brookes MS. (alternative name 
for Thylacinus). 

Lycaon Wagler, Syst. Amphib., p. 24, August. Not Lycaon 
Brookes, Anim. Kingdom Syn., 1827, p. 151. 

Peralopex Gloger, Hand- u. Hilfsb. Nat. i. p. 82, ante May, 
(new name for Thylacinus Temminck). 

Paracyon Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 97, May 13 
(used as valid name). 


THYLACINUS CYNOCEPHALUS Harris, 1808. 
TASMANIAN OR MARSUPIAL WOLF OR TIGER. 

Didelphis cynocephala Harris, Trans. Linn. Soe. (Lond.) 
ix, p. 174, pl. xix, 1. Tasmania. 

Thylacinus harrisii Temminck, Mon. Mamm., i (pp. xxiii, 23, 
nom. nud.), Pp. 63, pl. vii, 1-4. Tasmania. 

Dasyurus lucocephalus J. Grant, Gleanings Science, iii, p. 177, 
June. Tasmania. (ide Sherborn.) 

Thylacinus striatus Warlow, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, ii, p. 97, 
new name for D. cynocephala Harris. 

Thylacinus breviceps Krefft, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) ae 
p. 296, pl. xvii, Oct. Tasmania (Ouse River, coll. 
Masters, fide Krefft, 1871). 

Tasmania. 


Family MY RMECOBIID 44. 
MARSUPIAL ANT-EATERS. 
Genus MyRMECOBIUS Waterhouse, 1836. 
Myrmecobius Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1836, 
p. 69, Oct. 18. Haplotype, M. fasciatus Waterhouse. 


MYRMECOBIUS FASCIATUS Waterhouse, 1836. 
NUMBAT OR BANDED ANT-EATER. 
Myrmecobius fasciatus Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1836, p. 69, Oct. 18. 90 miles south-east of mouth of 
Swan River, West Australia (Lieut. Dale). 


16 


1843. 


1923. 


lS ile 


1889. 


1920. 


Siler, 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Myrmecobius diemenensis Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 
p. 100, May 13, ew Waterhouse MS; as synonym. 
Described from Van Diemen’s Land, Waterhouse, P.Z.S., 
1836, p. 131. 

South-Western Australia. 


MYRMECOBIUS RUFUS Wood Jones, 1923. 
SourH AUSTRALIAN OR Rusty NuMBAT. ( 
Myrmecobius rufus Wood Jones, Mamm. South Austr., pt. 1, 
p. 123, text-figs. 79, 83, 84. South Australia. - 
South Australia, interior of New South Wales (extinct ?). 


Family NOTORYCTIDA. 
MARSUPIAL MOLES. 


Genus NoTORYCTES Stirling, 1891. 

Notoryctes Stirling, Trans. Roy. Soc. 8. Austr., xiv, p. 154, 
July. New name for Psammoryctes Stirling, 1889. 
Orthotype, P. typhlops Stirling. 

Psammoryctes Stirling, Trans. Roy. Soc. 8. Austr., xii, p. 158, 
Dec. Orthotype, P. typhlops Stirling. Not Psam- 
moryctes Poeppig, Archiv. Nat. (Wiegmann) i, pt. 2, 
pp. 252, 255, 397, 1835 (fide Sherborn). 

Neoryctes Stirling, Trans. Roy. Soc. 8. Austr., xiv, p. 186, 
July, ex Sclater MS. (alternative name suggested by 
Sclater). 


NOTORYCTES TYPHLOPS Stirling, 1889. 
MARSUPIAL MOLE. 

Psammoryectes typhlops Stirling, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., 
xii, p. 158. Indracowrie, 100 miles from Charlotte Waters, 
Central Australia (A. Molineux). 

Central Australia. 


NOTORYCTES CAURINUS Thomas, 1920. 
NORTH-WESTERN MARSUPIAL MOLE. 

Notoryctes caurinus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) vi, 
p-. 111, July. Wollal, Ninety Mile Beach, North-West 
Australia (Stockton). 

North-Western Australia. 


Family PERAMELID. 
BANDICOOTS. 


Genus IsooDON Desmarest, 1817. 
Isoodon Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., xvi, 
p. 409, ex Geoffroy MS. Haplotype, Didelphis obesula 
Shaw and Nodder. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. ALT 


ISOODON OBESULUS Shaw and Nodder, 1797. 
SHORT-NOSED BANDICOOT. 
(a) Isoodon obesulus obesulus Shaw and Nodder, 1797. 
1797.  Didelphis obesula Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., viii, pl. 298, 
August. New Holland=Sydney, N.S.W. 
New South Wales, Victoria, South and Central Australia. 


(b) Isoodon obesulus fusciventer Gray, 1841. 
1841. Perameles fusciventer Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Australia 
(Grey), ii, App., pp. 407, 401, November. King George’s 
Sound, West Australia. 
South-western Australia. 


(c)  Lsoodon obesulus affinis Waterhouse, 1846. 
1846. Perameles affinis Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., i, p. 373. 
Tasmania, ex Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 96, 
May 13; nom. nud. Tasmania. 


[Quid ? 1841. Isoodon musei Boitard, Jardin des Plantes, p. 290, 
“1842” =August, 1841. Probably New 
Holland. } 


IsooDON NAUTICUS Thomas, 1922. 
Nuyt’s IsLanD BANDICOOT. 
1922. Isoodon nauticus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ix, p. 678, 
June 1. Franklin Island, Nuyt’s Archipelago, South 
Australia (Wood Jones). 
South Australia (Nuyt’s Archipelago). 


ISOODON BARROWENSIS Thomas, 1901. 
BaRRow ISLAND BANDICOOT. 


1901. Perameles barrowensis Thomas, Nov. Zool., vii, p. 396, 
December 31. Barrow Island, North-West Australia 
(Tunney). 


North-West Australia (Barrow Island). 


IsOODON AURATUS Ramsay, 1887. 
NORTHERN GOLDEN-BACKED BANDICOOT. 


1887. Perameles auratus Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) ii, 
p. 551, November 30. Derby, North-West Australia 
(W. W. Froggatt). 


North-West and North Australia. 


ISOODON PENINSUL2 Thomas, 1922. 
LitTLE CAPE YORK BANDICOOT. 


1922. Isoodon peninsule Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ix, p. 679, 


Junel. Utingu, Cape York, North Queensland. (Kemp.) © 


North Queensland (Cape York). 


18 


1842. 


1877. 


1803. 


iSital: 


1816. 


(a) 
1804. 


1825. 


1826. 


1841. 


(b) 
1923. 


SOK 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


ISOODON MACROURUS Gould, 1842. 
LARGER NORTHERN BANDICOOT. 


Perameles macroura Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, 
p. 41, November. Port Essington, North Australia. 
North Australia. 


ISOODON TOROSUS Ramsay, 1877. 
GIANT BRINDLED BANDICOOT. 

Perameles macroura var. torosus Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soe. 
NC SAWE sella: a2 eal ye North-East Queensland = 
Cooktown. 

North Queensland, ranging southward to northern New 
South Wales. 


Genus PERAMELES Geoffroy, 1803. 

Perameles Geoftroy, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. (Paris), No. 80, 
p. 150, November; Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris), iv, 
p. 56, March, 1804. Logotype, Lesson 1828, Perameles 
nasuta Geoffroy. 

Thylacis Illiger, Prodr. Mamm. et Av., p. 76 (pref. Apl.) 
(also misspelt Thybais and Thylaris Griffith, Synops. 
Anim., p. 195, 1827). New name for Perameles Geoffroy. 

Thylax Oken, Lehrb. Naturg., iii, Zool., 2, pp. xi, 1128-1130. 
New name for Perameles Geoffroy. 


PERAMELES NASUTA Geoffroy, 1804. 
LONG-NOSED BANDICOOT. 

Perameles nasuta nasuta Geoffroy, 1804. 

Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris), 
iv, p. 62, pl. xliv, March. New Holland=Sydney, 
New South Wales. 

Perameles major Schinz, Das Thierreich (Cuvier), iv, p. 375. 
Blue Mountains, New South Wales. 

Perameles lawson Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. “ Uranie,’’ Zool., 
p. 711, June 14. Blue Mountains (Bathurst), New South 
Wales, given by Capt. Lawson; lost in shipwreck. 

Perameles auritus Waterhouse, Nat. Library (Jardine), 
Marsupials, p. 156, August; e# Paris Museum. Port 
Jackson, N.S.W. 

New South Wales, Victoria, southern Queensland. 


Perameles nasuta pallescens Thomas, 1923. 

Perameles nasuta pallescens Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) xi, p. 173, January 1. Ravenshoe, North Queensland 
(I. Sherrin). 

North Queensland. 


PERAMELES EREMIANA Spencer, 1897. 
ORANGE-BACKED BANDICOOT. 
Perameles eremiana Spencer, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., ix (n.s.), 


1841. 


1838. 


1824. 


1837. 
1840. 


1841. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 19 


p. 9, figs. 5-7, March. Burt Plain, north of Alice Springs 
(Gillen). 
Central Australia. 


PERAMELES FASCIATA Gray, 1841. 
EASTERN BARRED BANDICOOT. 
Perameles fasciata Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Australia (Grey), 
ii, App., pp. 407, 401, November. Liverpool Plains, 
N.S.W. 


New South Wales, Victoria. 


PERAMELES GUNNII Gray, 1838. 
TASMANIAN BARRED BANDICOOT. 
Perameles gunnii Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., i, p. 107, April; 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1838, p. 1, July. Tasmania 
(R. Gunn). 
Tasmania. 


PERAMELES MYOSURA Wagner, 1841. 
MARL, OR WESTERN BARRED BANDICOOT. 

Perameles myosura myosura Wagner, 1841. 

Perameles myosura Wagner, Arch. fiir Naturg. (Wiegmann), 
vii, 1, pp. 280, 293. No locality King George’s Sound. 
West Australia. 

Perameles arenaria Gould, Proce. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1844, 
p. 104, October. West Australia (Gilbert) Swan River. 

South-western Australia. 


Perameles myosura notina Thomas, 1922. 

Perameles myosura notina Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 
x, p. 144, July 1. Plains at head of St. Vincent Gulf, 
S.A. (Capt. Grey). 

South Australia. 


PERAMELES BOUGAINVILLE Quoy and Gaimard, 1824. 
LITTLE MARL. 

Perameles bougainville Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. “‘ Uranie,” 
Zool., p. 56, Atlas, pl. v, July 31. Peron Peninsula, 
Shark’s Bay, W.A. 

Mid-western Australia and islands of Shark’s Bay. 


Genus MAcrotis Reid, 1837. 

Macrotis Reid, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1836, p. 31, June 27, 
1837. Orthotype, Perameles lagotis Reid. 

Thalacomys Blyth, Animal Kingdom (Cuvier), p. 104, ex 
Owen, Athenzum, 1838, p. 747, October 13; nom. nud. 
(Lhylacomys as spelt by Blyth, loc. cit., p. 107). Haplo- 
type, Perameles lagotis Reid. 

Paragalia Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Australia (Grey), ii, 
App., p. 401, November (also spelt Perigalea, Paragalea, 
Peragalea, Peragale). Waplotype, Perameles lagotis Reid. 


20 


1854. 


(a) 


1837. 


(b) 


1932. 


(¢) 
1923. 


(d) 


1905. 


(e) 
1932. 


(f) 
1932. 


(a) 
1897. 


(b) 


1932. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
Phalacomys English Cyclop. Nat. Hist., i, p. 382; error only. 


MACROTIS LAGOTIS Reid, 1837. 
RABBIT BANDICOOT OR BILBY. 
Macrotis lagotis lagotis Reid, 1837. 
Perameles lagotis Reid, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1836, p. 129, 
June 27, 1837. Swan River, West Australia. 
Western Australia, Central Australia. 


Macrotis lagotis interjecta Troughton, 1932. 

Macrotis lagotis interjecta Troughton, Austr. Zool., vii, p. 227, 

September 15. Rawlinna, Trans-Austr. Railway, West 
Australia. 

South-east of Western Australia. 


Macrotis lagotis nigripes Wood Jones, 1923. 

Thalacomys nigripes Wood Jones, Rec. South Austr. Mus., 
ii, p. 347, June 30. Ooldea, Trans.-Austr. Railway, 
South Australia. 

South-west of South Australia. 


Macrotis lagotis sagitta Thomas, 1905. 

Thalacomys sagitta Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xvi, 
p. 426, October. Killalpanina, east of Lake Hyre, S.A. 
(H. J. Hillier). 

Northern South Australia. 


Macrotis lagotis grandis Troughton, 1932. 

Macrotis lagotis grandis Troughton, Austr. Zool., vii, p. 229, 
September 15. Nalpa, Lake Alexandrina, South 
Australia. 

South-east of South Australia. 


Macrotis lagotis cambrica Troughton, 1932. 

Macrotis lagotis cambrica Troughton, Austr. Zool., vii, p. 230, 
September 15. Bathurst, New South Wales. 

New South Wales, Victoria (Spencer), South Queensland. 


MACROTIS MINOR Spencer, 1897. 
LESSER RABBIT-BANDICOOT. 

Macrotis minor minor Spencer, 1897. 

Peragale. minor Spencer, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., ix (n.s.), p. 6, 
pl. ii, figs. 1-4, March. 40 miles north-east of Charlotte 
Waters, Central Australia. 

South Australia, Central Australia. 


Macrotis minor miselia Finlayson, 1932. 

Thalacomys minor miselius Finlayson, Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. 
S. Aust., Ivi, p. 168, December 24. Cooncherie, east of 
Lake Eyre, South ‘Australia. 

South Australia. 


1887. 


1838. 


(a) 
1838. 


1842. 


(b) 


1845. 


1842. 


1842. 


1842. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 21 


MACROTIS LEUCURA Thomas, 1887. 
WHITE-TAILED RABBIT-BANDICOOT. 
Peragale leucura Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) xix, p. 397, 
June 1. (? Adelaide, South Australia, ex J. Beazley.) 
Central Australia. 


Genus CHEROPUS Ogilby, 1838. 
Cheropus Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1838, p. 26, July. 
Haplotype, Perameles ecaudatus Ogilby. 


CHEROPUS ECAUDATUS Ogilby, 1838. 
PIG-FOOTED BANDICOOT. 
Cheropus ecaudatus ecaudatus Ogilby, 1838. 
Perameles ecaudatus Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1838, 
p. 25, July. Banks of Murray River, New South Wales. 
Cheropus castanotis Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ix, p. 42, 
March. Murray River scrubs, South Australia (Capt. 
G. Grey). 
Interior of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 


Cheropus ecaudatus occidentalis Gould, 1845. 

Cheropus occidentalis Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. i (Vol. i, 
pl. vi, text), May. Interior of West Australia (Gilbert). 

South-western Australia. 


Suborder DIPROTODONTIA. 
Family PHALANGERIDA. 
Subfamily TARSIPEDIN A. 
Genus TARSIPES Gray, 1842. 
Tarsipes Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ix, p. 40, March, ex 
Gervais MS. Haplotype, Tarsipes spensere Gray. 


TARSIPES SPENSERZ Gray, 1842. 
HONEY Possum. 
Tarsipes spensere Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ix, p. 40, 
March. King George’s Sound, West Australia (Capt. 
G. Grey). 
Tarsipes rostratus Gervais and Verreaux, Proc. Zool. Soe. 
(Lond.) 1842, p. 1, June. Swan River, West Australia. 
South-western Australia. 


Subfamily PHALANGERINAS. 
Genus ACROBATES Desmarest, 1818. 

Acrobates Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., 
xxv, p. 405, December 26. Haplotype, Didelphis 
pygmea Shaw. 

Ascobates Penny Cyclopedia (Knight), xiv, No. 907, p. 454, 
ex Owen MS. Nom. nud. Error only. 


ih 
1 


22 
1841. 


1841. 
1841. 


1916. 


(a) 
1818. 


1829. 


(b) 
1925. 


(Cc) 
1863. 


1845. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Cercoptenus Gloger, Hand- u. Hilfsb. Nat., i, p. 85, ante May. 
Haplotype, Didelphis pygmea Shaw. 


ACROBATES PYGMZUS Shaw, 1793. 
PigMy GLIDER. 
Acrobates pygmeus pygmeus Shaw, 1793. 
Didelphis pygmewa Shaw, Zool. New Holl., i, p. 5, pl. ii, 
October 1. New Holland=Sydney, New South Wales. 
New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 


Acrobates pygmeus frontalis De Vis, 1887. 

Dromicia frontalis De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) i, 
p. 1134, February 22. Herbert River Mts., North 
Queensland. 

North Queensland. 


Genus CERCARTETUS Giloger, 1841. 
Cercartetus Gloger, Hand-u. Hilfsb. Nat., i, p. 85, ante May. 
Haplotype, Phalangista nana Desmarest. 
Dromicia Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Austr. (Grey), ii, pp. 407, 
401, November. Haplotype, Phalangista nana Desmarest. 
Dromiciella Matschie, Mitt. Zool. Mus. (Berlin), viii, 2, p. 260, 
April. Orthotype, Dromicia concinna Gould. 


CERCARTETUS NANUS Desmarest, 1818. 
Piamy Possum. 

Cercartetus nanus nanus Desmarest, 1818. 

Phalangista nana Desmarest, Nouy. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. 
ed., xxv, p. 477, December 26, ew Geoffroy MS. Me 
Maria, Tasmania. 

Phalangista gliriformis Bell, Trans. Linn. Soe. (Lond.), xvi, 
p. 121, pls. xiii, xiv. Australia Tasmania. 

Tasmania. 


Cercartetus nanus britta Wood Jones, 1925. 

Dromicia britta Wood Jones, Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. 8. Austr., 
xlix, p. 97, December 24. Millicent, S.E. South Australia. 

South-east South Australia. 


Cercartetus nanus unicolor Krefft, 1863. 

Dromicia unicolor Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1863, p. 49, 
April 29. St. Leonards, North Shore, Sydney, N.S.W. 

New South Wales, Victoria. 


CERCARTETUS CONCINNUS Gould, 1845. 
WESTERN PicMy Possum. 
Dromicia concinna Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, p. 2, 
April; Mamm. Austr., pt. i (Vol. i, pl. 9), May, 1845. 
Swan River, W.A. 


1846. 


1916. 


1916. 


1916. 


1888. 


1867. 


1867. 


1791. 


1814. 


1820. 


1839. 


1841. 
1916. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 23 


Phalangista (Dromicia) neillit Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., 
i, p. 315, pl. xix, f. 3. King George’s Sound, W.A. 
(Neill). 

South-western Australia. 


Genus EUDROMICIA Myjoberg, 1916. 

Eudromicia Mjéberg, K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 
lii, 2, p.13, January 18. Haplotype, Ludromicia macrura, 
Mjoberg. 

Dromiciola Matschie, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, viii, 2, p. 260, 
April. Orthotype, Dromicia lepida Thomas. 


EUDROMICIA MACRURA Mjoberg, 1916. 
QUEENSLAND PiGmMy POSSUM. 

Eudromicia macrura Mjéberg, K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. 
Hand.., lii, 2, p. 14, pl. 1 and text-figs. 1-6, January 18. 
Cedar Creek, Atherton, near Cairns, North Queensland. 

North Queensland. 


EUDROMICIA LEPIDA Thomas, 1888. 
TASMANIAN PrIGMy-PossuM. 
Dromicia lepida Thomas, Cat. Marsupials and Monotremes 
Brit. Mus., p. 142, November 3. Tasmania (R. Gunn). 
Tasmania. 


Genus GYMNOBELIDEUS M’Coy, 1867. 
Gymnobelideus M’Coy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xx, p. 287, 
October 1. Haplotype, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri M’Coy. 


GYMNOBELIDEUS LEADBEATERI M’Coy, 1867. 
LEADBEATER’S POSSUM. 
Gymnobelideus leadbeateri M’Coy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xx, 
p. 287, pl. vi, October 1. Bass River, Victoria. 
Victoria. 


Genus PETAURUS Shaw and Nodder, 1791. 

Petaurus Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., ii, pl. vi, March 1. 
Haplotype, Petaurus australis Shaw and Nodder. 

Ptilotus G. Fischer, Zoognosia, iii, p. 512, xix (ew Zoognosia, 
i, p. 15, 1813; nom. nud.). New name for Petaurus 
Shaw and N odder. 

Petaurista Desmarest, Tabl. Ency. Meth., Mamm., i, p. 268, 
December 31, ex ‘“‘ Cuv. Geoff. Tllig. ” New name for 
Petaurus Shaw and Nodder. 

Belideus Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1838, 
pp. 149-151, May. Orthotype, Petaurus sciureus = 
Sciurus norfolcensis Kerr. 

Xenochirus Gloger, Hand- u. Hilfsb. Nat., i, p. 85, ante May. 
Haplotype, Didelphis sciurea Shaw. 

Petaurula Matschie, Mitt. zool. Mus. Berlin, viii, 1, p. 261, 
April. Orthotype, Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse. 


1800. 


1816. 


1818. 


1843. 


1854. 


(b) 
1923. 


1793. 


1794. 


(b) 


1883. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


PETAURUS AUSTRALIS Shaw and Nodder, 1791. 
YELLOW-BELLIED POSSUM-GLIDER. 

Petaurus australis australis Shaw and Nodder, 1791. 

Petaurus australis Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., ii, pl. bx, 
March 1. New Holland (for the Hepoona Roo White) = 
Sydney. 

Didelphis petaurus Shaw, General Zoology, i, 2, p. 496, pl. exii, 
(dated February). New name for Petaurus australis 
Shaw and Nodder. 

Petaurus hepoonaroo Oken, Lehrb. Nat., iii, Zool. 2, p. 1118. 
New name for Didelphis petaurus Shaw. 

Petaurus flaviventer Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., 
nouy. ed., xxv, p. 403, December 26, ex Geoffroy MS. 
New Holland (Peron) =Sydney, N.S.W. 

Petaurus cunninghami Gray, List. spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 
p. 83, May 13, in synonymy. 

Petaurus oppossum Falcimange, Memoire 1’ Austral. (Salvado), 
p. 3866, footnote, error for P. australis Shaw. 

New South Wales, Victoria. 


Petaurus australis reginw Thomas, 1923. 

Petaurus australis regine Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xi, 
p. 249, February. Bundaberg, Queensland (W. Allen). 
Queensland. 


PETAURUS NORFOLCENSIS Kerr, 1792. 
SQUIRREL-GLIDER. 

Petaurus norfolcensis norfolcensis Kerr, 1792. 

Sciurus (Petaurus) norfoleensis Kerr. Animal Kingdom 
(Linne), pt. i, p. 270, preface February (cf. Turton, Syst. 
Nat., i, p. 96, 1806), based on Norfolk Island Flying 
Squirrel. Norfolk Island, error—=Sydney, New South 
Wales. 

Sciurus novehollandiw Meyer, Zool. Entdeck, p. 11, on same 
basis as preceding. 

Didelphis sciurea Shaw, Zool. New Holl., i, p. 29, pl. xi, 
September. Sydney, New South Wales. 

Victoria, New South Wales, South Queensland. 


Petaurus norfoleensis gracilis De Vis, 1883. 

Belideus gracilis De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vii, p. 619, 
April. North of Cardwell, Queensland. 

North Queensland. 


PETAURUS BREVICEPS Waterhouse, 1839. 
SUGAR GLIDER. 
Petaurus breviceps breviceps Waterhouse, 1839. 
Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1838, 
p. 152, May 1839. New South Wales. * 


1859. 


1842. 


1908. 


1837. 


1838. 


1843. 


(a) 


1785. 


1792. 


1800. 
1816. 
1821. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON,. 25 


Petaurus (Belideus) notatus Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. 
Wissen. Berlin, 1859, p. 14, January. Mountains of 
Victoria (Krefft). 

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria. 


Petaurus breviceps ariel Gould, 1842. 

Belidea ariel Gould, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1842, p. 11, June. 
Port Essington, North Australia. 

North Australia. 


Genus DACTYLOPSILA Gray, 1858. 
Dactylopsila Gray, Proce. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1858, p. 109, 
April 27. Haplotype, Dactylopsila trivirgata Gray (Aru 
Islands). 


DACTYLOPSILA PICATA Thomas, 1908. 
STRIPED Possum. 
Dactylopsila picata Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) i, p. 123, 
January 1. Port Albany, Cape York, North Queensland 
(C. Coxen). 
North Queensland. 


Genus PSBUDOCHEIRUS Ogilby, 1837. 

Pseudocheirus Ogilby, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth), i, 
p. 457, September (ew Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1836, 
p. 26, June 9, Pseudochirus, nom. nud., not in Sherborn). 
Logotype, Thomas, Cat. Mars. Brit. Mus., p. 166, 1888, 
Pseudocheirus peregrinus auct.—Phalangista laniginosa 
Gould. 

Hepoona Ogilby, Ann. Nat. Hist., i, p. 218, May, ev Gray MS. 
(Not in Sherborn.) Haplotype, Phalangista cooku 
Desmarest. 

Ptenos Gray, List spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. xxii, May 13, 
ex “ Jourd.’”’ MS, as synonym of Hepoona Gray. 


PSEUDOCHEIRUS PEREGRINUS Boddaert, 1785. 
GREY QUEENSLAND RING-TAIL. 

Pseudocheirus peregrinus peregrinus Boddaert, 1785. 

Didelphis peregrinus Boddaert, Elench., p. 78, based on 
Pennant, Quadr., ii, p. 25, 1783, ew Cook. Endeavour 
River, North Queensland. 

Didelphis caudivoloula Kerr, Animal Kingdom (Linne), pt. i, 
p. 196, preface February (cf. Turton, Syst. Nat., i, p. 66, 
1806, caudivolwa), based on Pennant, as preceding. 

Didelphis novehollandie Bechstein, Ueber vierfiisse Thiere, 
ii, pp. 348, 685, based on Pennant, as preceding. 

Balantia banksii Oken, Lehrb. Nat., iii, Zool. 2, p. 1125, based 
on Pennant, as preceding. 

Phalangista cookii Schinz, Das Thierreich (Cuvier), i, p. 258. 
North coast of New Holland. 


(¢) 
1926. 


(¢) 
1915. 


1929. 


(e) 
1915. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Phalangista banksii Gray, Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist., i, p. 108, 
April, based on Pennant, as above. 
North Queensland (Cooktown). 


Pseudocheirus peregrinus incanens Thomas, 1923. 

Pseudochirus laniginosus incanens Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (9) xi, p. 249, February 1. Ravenshoe, North 
Queensland (T. Sherrin). 

North Queensland (Ravenshoe). 


Pseudocheirus peregrinus oralis Thomas, 1926. 

Pseudochirus laniginosus oralis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (9) xvii, p. 631, June 1. Bloomsbury, mid- 
Queensland. 

Mid-Eastern Queensland. 


PSEUDOCHEIRUS LANIGINOSUS Gould, 1858. 
SOUTH-EASTERN OR COMMON RING-TAIL. 


Pseudocheirus laniginosus laniginosus Gould, 1858. 

Phalangista laniginosa Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. x (Vol. i, 
pl. xx). Upper Hunter flats, N.S.W. 

New South Wales. 


Pseudocheirus laniginosus modestus Thomas, 1926. 

Pseudochirus laniginosus modestus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (9) xvii, p. 632, June 1. St. George’s River, inland 
northern New South Wales (Wilkins). 

Inland Northern New South Wales. 


Pseudocheirus laniginosus pulcher Matschie, 1915. 

Pseudochirus pulcher Matschie, Sitzb. ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin, 
1915, p. 85, January. New name for Pseudochirus cookit 
Gould [Mamm. Austr., pt. viii (Vol. i, pl. xviii)] nec 
Desmarest. Brushes of N.S. Wales. 


Coastal Northern New South Wales. 


Pseudocheirus laniginosus rubidus Troughton and Le Souef, 


Pseudochirus rubidus Troughton and Le Souef, Rec. Austr. 
Mus., xvii, p. 294, col. pl. xlv, November 28. Bunya 
Range, South Queensland (Fred. Morse). 


South Queensland. 


Pseudocheirus laniginosus victorie Matschie, 1915. 
Pseudochirus victorie Matschie, Sitzb. Ges. Nat. Freunde 
Berlin, 1915, p. 85, January. Cape Otway, Victoria. 


Victoria. 


(f) 
1923. 


1888. 


- (a) 
1816. 
1818. ° 


1821. 
1838. 
1844. 


(b) 
1929. 


(a) 
1884. 


1887. 


(b) 
1899. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 27 


Pseudocheirus laniginosus notialis Thomas, 1923. 

Pseudochirus laniginosus notialis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (9) xii, p. 158, July 1. Mt. Lofty Range, South 
Australia (Wood Jones). 

South Australia. 


PSEUDOCHEIRUS OCCIDENTALIS Thomas, 1888. 
WESTERN RING-TAIL. 


Pseudochirus occidentalis Thomas, Cat. Marsupialia and 
Monotremata Brit. Mus., p. 174, November 3. King 
George’s Sound, West Australia (Gilbert). 

South-western Australia. 


PSEUDOCHEIRUS CONVOLUTOR Oken, 1816. 
TASMANIAN RING-TAIL. 


Pseudocheirus convolutor convolutor Oken, 1816. 

Balantia convolutor Oken, Lehrb. Nat., iii, Zool. 2, p. 1125. 
Adventure Bay, Tasmania. 

Phalangista cookii Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., 
nouv. ed., xxv, p. 476, December 26, ex Geoffroy MS. 
Tasmania (Péron and Lesueur). 

Phalangista convolutor Schinz, Das Thierreich (Cuvier), i, 
p. 258. Adventure Bay, Tasmania. 

Phalangista viverrina Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1837, 
p. 131, June 14, 1838. Tasmania. 

Phalangista incana Schinz, Syst. Verz. Saug., i, p. 530. 
Tasmania. 

Tasmania. 


Pseudocheirus convolutor bassianus Le Souef, 1929. 
Pseudochirus cookit bassianus Le Souef, Austr. Zool., v, 

p. 330, March 24. Flinders Island, Bass Straits. 
Islands of Bass Straits. 


PSEUDOCHEIRUS HERBERTENSIS Collett, 1884. 
HERBERT RIVER RING-TAIN. 


Pseudocheirus herbertensis herbertensis Collett, 1884. 

Phalangista herbertensis Collett, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1884, p. 353, pl. xxx, figs. 3, 4, October. Herbert Vale, 
North Queensland (Lumbholtz). 

Pseudochirus mongan De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) i, 
p. 1130, February 22. Herbert River Gorge, North 
Queensland. 

North Queensland. 


Pseudocheirus herbertensis colletti Waite, 1899. 

Pseudochirus herbertensis var. colletti Waite, Ree. Austr. 
Mus., iii, p. 92, April 17. Boar Pocket (Tinaroo), near 
Cairns, Queensland. 

North Queensland. 


28 


1915. 


1884. 


1884. 


1884. 


1915. 


1923. 


1895. 


1842. 


1800. 


1843. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Genus PSEUDOCHIROPS Matschie, 1915. 


Pseudochirops Matschie, Sitzb. ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin, 
1915, p. 86, January. Orthotype, Phalangista albertisi 
Peters. 


PSEUDOCHIROPS ARCHERI Collett, 1884. 
STRIPED RING-TAIL. 


Phalangista (Pseudochirus) archeri Collett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.) 1884, p. 381, pl. xxxix, figs. 1-2, October 1. 
North Queensland (C. Lumholtz). 

North Queensland. 


Genus HEMIBELIDEUS Collett, 1884. 
Hemibelideus Collett, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1884, p. 385, 
October 1. Haplotype, Phalangista (Hemibelideus) 
lemuroides Collett. 


HEMIBELIDEUS LEMUROIDES Collett, 1884. 
BUSHY-TIPPED RING-TAIL. 


Phalangista (Hemibelideus) lemuroides Collett, Proc. Zool. 
Soe. (Lond.) 1884, p. 385, pl. xxxi, figs. 5-6, October 1. 
North Queensland (C. Lumbholtz). 

Pseudochirus (Hemibelideus) cervinus Longman, Mem. Queens- 
land Mus., iii, p. 22, January 28. Atherton tableland, 
North Queensland (Holyoake). 

North Queensland. 


Genus PETROPSEUDES Thomas, 1923. 
Petropseudes Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xi, p. 250, 
February 1. Haplotype, Pseudochirus dahli Collett. 


PETROPSEUDES DAHLI Collett, 1895. 
ROcK-HAUNTING RING-TAIL. 


Pseudochirus dahli Collett, Zool. Anzeiger, xviii, No. 490, 
p. 464, December 2. Mary River, Northern Territory 
(Dr. Knut Dahl). 

North Australia. 


Genus SCHOINOBATES Lesson, 1842. 

Schoinobates Lesson, Nouy. Tab., Reéegne Anim., p. 190, 
November. Haplotype, Petaurista leucogenys Tem- 
minck =Didelphis volans Kerr. 

Volucella Bechstein, Ueber vierfiisse Thiere, ii, p. 352. Logo- 
type, Thomas, Cat. Marsupialia and Monotremata Brit. 
Mus., p. 168, 1888, Didelphis volans Kerr. Not Voluc- 
cella Fabricius, Ent. Syst., iv, p. 412, 1794, nom. nud., 
nor Volucella Geoffroy, Hist. Insect. Paris, ii, p. 540, 
1762, fide Sherborn. 

Schoinobates Gray, List. spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. xxii, 
May 13, ea Lesson, as synonym of Petaurista. 


1846. 


1888. 


(a) 
1792. 


1793. 
1794. 
1800. 
1816. 


1818. 


1818. 
[1825. 


1835. 


1837. 


1838. 


(b) 
1923, 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON,. 29 


Petaurista Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., i, p. 320, ex 
Desmarest. Orthotype, Petaurista taguanoides Des- 
marest =Didelphis volans Kerr. Not Petaurista Link, 
Beytr. Nat., i, 2, p. 52, 1795, nom. nud., nor Meigen, 
N. Class. Mouche, p. 15, 1800, fide Sherborn. 


Petauroides Thomas, Cat. Marsupialia and Monotremata Brit. 
Mus., p. 163, November 3. New name for Volucella 
Bechstein, 1800. Orthotype, Didelphis volans Kerr, 


SCHOINOBATES VOLANS Kerr, 1792. 
GREATER POSSUM-GLIDER. 

Schoinobates volans volans Kerr, 1792. 

Didelphis volans Kerr, Animal Kingdom (Linné), pt. i, p. 199, 
preface February (cf. Turton, Syst. Nat., i, p. 68, 1806), 
based on Black Flying Opossum, Phillip, p. 297= 
Sydney, New South Wales. 

Didelphus voluccella Meyer, Zool. Entdeck, p. 26, on same 
basis as preceding. 

Didelphis macroura Shaw, Zool. New Holl., i, p. 33, pl. xii, 
November 1. (Sydney) New South Wales. 

Volucella nigra Bechstein, Ueber vierfiisse Thiere, ii, pp. 
351, 686, on same basis as preceding. 

Petaurus niger Oken, Lebrb. Nat., iii, Zool. 2, p. 1119, on 
same basis as preceding. 

Petaurus taguanoides Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., 
nouy. ed., xxv, p. 400, December 26, ex Geoffroy MS. 
(? New name for Didelphis petaurus Shaw.) New South 
Wales. ; 

Petaurus peronit Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. 
ed., xxv, p. 404, December 26. New Holland. 

“ Petaurus didelphoides”’ KF. Cuvier, Dents. Mamm., pp. 
129, 253. Not in Sherborn. ? Vernacular only. | 

Petaurista leucogenys Temminck (Fauna Japonica), Disc. 
prelim., p. xxii. ‘‘ Japan,” error=Sydney, New South 
Wales. 

Petaurus maximus Partington, Brit. Cyclop. Nat. Hist., iii, 
p. 424, January. New Holland=Sydney, New South 
Wales. 

Petaurus leucogaster Mitchell, Three Exped. Central Australia, 
i, p. xvii (preface August 18), nom. nud. Banks of the 
River Murray, New South Wales. 

New South Wales, Victoria. 


Schoinobates volans incanus Thomas, 1923. 

Petauroides volans incanus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) xi, p. 247, February 1. Hidsvold, S. Queensland 
(T. Sherrin). 

South-eastern Queensland. 


30 


(¢) 


1923. 


(d) 


1887. 


1890. 


1828. 


1837. 
1839. 
1839. 


1841. 


(a) 
1792. 


1793. 
1793. 
1800. 


1800. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Schoinobates volans armillatus Thomas, 1923. 

Petauroides volans armillatus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 
(9) xi, p. 248, February 1. Coomooboolaroo, South 
Queensland (Lumholtz). 

Southern mid-Queensland. 


Schoinobates volans minor Collett, 1887. 

Petaurista volans var. minor Collett, Zool. Jahrb., ii, p. 926, 
September 15. Herbert Vale, North Queensland. 
Petaurides cinereus Ramsay, Rec. Austr. Mus., i, p. 77, 

September. Bellenden Ker Range, North Queensland 
(Cairn and Grant). 
North Queensland. 


Genus TRICHOSURUS Lesson, 1828. 

Trichosurus Wesson, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat., xiii, p. 333, 
January. lLogotype, Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., 
i, p. 298, footnote, 1846, Didelphis vulpecula Kerr. 
Not Trichosurus Rafinesque, Analyse Nat., p. 99, 1815, 
nom. nud. 

Cercaertus Burmeister, Handb. Nat., p. 814, ex Gloger MS. 
Haplotype, Didelphis vulpecula Kerr. 

Tapoa Penny Cyclop., xiv, No. 907, p. 454, ec Owen MS. 
as of Gray. 

Tapoa Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1839, p. 19, July. 
Nom. nud. 

Psilogrammurus Gloger, Hand- u. hilfsb. Nat., i, p. 85, ante 
May. Logotype, Thomas, Cat. Marsupialia and Mono- 
tremata Brit. Mus., p. 184, 1888, Didelphis vulpecula 
Kerr. 


TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA Kerr, 1792. 
CoMMON BRUSH-TAILED POSSUM. 


Trichosurus vulpecula vulpecula Kerr, 1792. 

Didelphis vulpecula Kerr, Animal Kingdom (Linné), pt. i, 
p. 198, preface February (cf. Turton, Syst. Nat., i, p. 68, 
1806), based on Vulpine Opossum of Phillip Sydney, 
New South Wales. 

Didelphis vulpina Meyer, Zool. Entdeck., p. 23, based on 
Vulpine Opossum of Phillip, pp. 150, 168—Sydney, 
New South Wales. 

Didelphis tapouaru Meyer, Zool. Entdeck., p. 24, based on 
Wha Tapoua Roo of White, 278=Sydney, New South 
Wales. 

Didelphis lemurina Shaw, Gen. Zool., i, 2, p. 487, pl. ex, 
(dated February 1), ew White, Bewick and Pennant= 
Sydney, New South Wales. 

Ursus novehollandie Bechstein, Ueber vierfiisse Thiere, ii, 
pp. 337, 683, based on Pennant—Sydney, New South 
Wales. 


1829. 


1831. 


1842. 


(b) 
1831. 


1841. 


1841. 


1842. 


1847. 


(c) 


1926. 


(d) 


1888. 


(e) 


1916. 


(f) 


1897. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 31 


Phalangista bougainvillei J. B. Fischer, Synops. Mamm., 
p. 583 (383), based on Cuvier. 

Phalangista wanthopus Ogilby, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soe. 
(Lond.) 1831, p. 1385, October 31. Locality unknown = 
Glenelg (Mitchell). 

Phalangista melanura Wagner, Siiugthiere (Schreber), Suppl., 
iii (Hefte 111-112), p. 81, November 30, based on “‘Cuv. 
Mamm. pl. cooki.” 

New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Southern 
Queensland. 


Trichosurus vulpecula fuliginosus Ogilby, 1831. 

Phalangista fuliginosa Ogilby, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 
1831, p. 135, October 31. Sydney. 2?‘ Living in 
Zoological Society’s Gardens, London ”’ =Tasmania. 

Phalangista cuvieri Waterhouse, Nat. Library (Jardine), 
Marsupials, p. 268, August, ew Gray MS =Tasmania. 

Phalangista fuliginosa var. grisea Gray, Journ. Two Exped. 
Australia (Grey), ii, App., p. 401, November. Nom. nud. 
Circular Head, Tasmania. 

Phalangista felina Wagner, Siugthiere (Schreber), Suppl. iii 
(Hefte 109-110), p. 76. Tasmania. 

Phalangista selma Gervais, Dict. Univ. d’Hist. Nat. (Orbigny), 
ix, p. 704, error for felina Wagner. Tasmania. 

Tasmania. 


Trichosurus vulpecula mesurus Thomas, 1926. 

Trichosurus vulpecula mesurus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (9) xvii, p. 633, June 1. Inkerman, Queensland 
(W. Stalker). 

Mid Queensland. 


Trichosurus vulpecula johnstonii Ramsay, 1888. 

Phalangista johnstonii Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 
ili, p. 1297, December 7. Bellenden Ker Range, North 
Queensland (Robert Johnstone). 

North Queensland (Cardwell). 


Trichosurus vulpecula eburacensis Lonnberg, 1916. 

Trichosurus vulpecula eburacensis Lonnberg, K. Svensk. 
Vetensk. Handl., lii, 2, p. 9. Olen Creek, Cape York, 
Queensland. 

North Queensland (Cape York Peninsula). 


Trichosurus vulpecula arnhemensis Collett, 1897. 

Trichosurus vulpecula var. arnhemensis Collett, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.) 1897, p. 328, August 1. Daly River, 
Northern Territory. 

North Australia. 


32 


(g) 


1909. 


(h) 


1855. 


1836. 
1916. 


LO OR 


1919. 


1862. 


1850. 


1858. 


1866. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Trichosurus vulpecula ruficollis Schwarz, 1909. 

Trichosurus vulpecula ruficollis Schwarz, Zool. Anzeiger, 
XXxiv, p. 626, August 10. Murchison District, Western 
Australia. 

Mid-Western Australia. 


Trichosurus vulpecula hypoleucus Wagner, 1855. 

Phalangista hypoleucus Wagner, Siugthiere (Schreber), Suppl. 
v, p. 273, pl. xxii. South-West Australia (fide Schwarz). 

South-West Australia. 


TRICHOSURUS CANINUS Ogilby, 1836. 
SHORT-EARED OR MOUNTAIN BRUSH-TAILED Possum. 
Phalangista canina Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1835, 
p. 191, April 8, 1836. Hunter River, New South Wales. 
Trichosurus caninus nigrans Le Souef, Austr. Zool., i, p. 64, 
March 13. Heavy coastal scrubs of N.E. New South 
Wales (colour phase only). 
New South Wales, Southern Queensland. 


Genus WYULDA Alexander, 1919. 
Wyulda Alexander, Journ. Roy. Soc. West Austr., iv, 1917-18, 
p. 31, July 1919. Haplotype, Wyulda squamicaudata 
Alexander. 


WYULDA SQUAMICAUDATA Alexander, 1919. 
SCALY-TAILED POSSUM. 

Wyulda squamicaudata Alexander, Journ. Roy. Soc. West 
Austr., iv, 1917-18, p. 31, pl. i, July 1919. Wyndham, 
North-West Australia. 

North-Western Australia. 


Genus SPILOCUSCUS Gray, 1862. 

Spilocuscus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1861, p. 316, 
April 7, 1862. Logotype, Thomas, Cat. Marsupialia 
and Monotremata Brit. Mus., p. 193, 1888, Phalangista 
maculata Desmarest. 


SPILOCUSCUS NUDICAUDATUS Gould, 1850. 
CAPE YoRK CUSCUS. 

Phalangista (Pseudocheirus) nudicaudata Gould, Proc. Zool. 
Soe. (Lond.) 1849, p. 110, between January and June 
1850. Cape York, North Queensland (Macgillivray). 

Cuscus brevicaudatus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1858, 
p. 102, April 27. New name for Phalangista nudi- 
caudata Gould. 

Cuscus maculatus var. ochropus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1866, p. 220, September 5. Port Albany, Cape York, 
North Queensland (Coxen). 

North Queensland. 


(b) 
1923. 


1803. 
1803. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. oo 


Family PHASCOLARCTID AS. 
Genus PHASCOLARCTOS Blainville, 1816. 
Phascolarctos Blainville, Nouv. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. (Paris), 
p. 108 (116), July. Haplotype, =Lipurus cinereus Goldfuss. 
Lipurus Goldfuss, Siugthiere (Schreber), 65¢ cahier, pls. clv, 
Aa, Ab. Haplotype, Lipurus cinereus Goldfuss. 
Morodactylus Goldfuss, Zool., ii, p. 445. New name for 
preceding. 
Koala Schinz, Das Thierreich (Cuvier), i, p. 265 (not in 
Sherborn). Haplotype, Lipurus cinereus Goldfuss. 
Draximenus Lay, Eneyel. Londin. (Wilkes), xxii, p. 744. 
New name only. (Palmer and Sherborn give date as 
1845 !) 

Iascurus MeMurtrie, Animal Kingdom (Cuvier), p. 78. Error 
only. 

Kaola Cuvier, Régne Animal, iv, p. 222, “‘ 1817 =December 16, 
1816,” cited by Sherborn is a vernacular only.] 


PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS Goldfuss, 1817. 
KOALA. 

Phascolarctos cinereus cinereus Goldfuss, 1817. 

Lipurus cinereus Goldfuss, Siugthiere (Schreber), 65° cahier, 
pls. elv, Aa, Ac. New South Wales. 

Phascolarctos fuscus Desmarest, Tabl. Ency. Meth., Mamm., 
i, p. 276, December 31. River Vapaum, New Holland. 

Phascolarctos flindersii Lesson, Man. Mamm., p. 221, May. 
New name only. 

K. (=Phascolarctos) koala Griffith, Smith and Pidgeon, 
Animal Kingdom (Cuvier), v, Syn., p. 205. New name 
only. (Not in Sherborn.) 

Koala subiens Burnett, Quarterly Journ. Sci., xxviii, p. 351. 
New name only. 

Koala cinerea McMurtrie, Animal Kingdom (Cuvier), p. 78, 
id. ed. Henderson, p. 116. New name only. 

New South Wales, Victoria. 


Phascolarctos cinereus adustus Thomas, 1923. 

Phascolarctos cinereus adustus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) xi, p. 246, February. Mundubbera, EHidsvold, South 
Queensland (T. Sherrin). 

South Queensland. 


Family VOMBATIDAL. 
WoMBATS. 
Genus VOMBATUS Geoffroy, 1803. 

Vombatus Geoffroy, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. (Paris), No. 72, 
p. 185, March. Haplotype, Didelphis ursina Shaw. 
Phascolomis Geoffroy, Bull. Sci. Soe. Philom. (Paris), No. 80, 
p. 149; Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. (Paris), ii, p. 365, August. 

Haplotype, =Didelphis ursina Shaw. 


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1810. 


1811. 


(a) 


1800. 


1802. 
1804. 
1808. 


1827. 


(b) 
1910. 


(a) 
1810. 


[1838. 


[1853. 


[1873. 


(b) 
1863. 


1863. 


1863. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Opossum Perry, Arcana, pl. (21), May 1. Haplotype, Opossum 
hirsutum Perry. 

Amblotis Mlliger, Prod. Syst. Mamm. et Av.,p. 77 (pref. April). 
New name for Wombatus Geofiroy. 


VOMBATUS URSINUS Shaw, 1800. 
IsLAND WOMBAT. 

Vombatus ursinus ursinus Shaw, 1800. 

Didelphis ursina Shaw, Gen. Zool., i, 2, p. 504 (plates dated 
February 1). New Holland=Cape Barren Island, Bass 
Straits (Bass and Flinders). 

Didelphis wombat Voigt, Mag. Naturk., iv, p. 681, on same 
basis as preceding. 

Wombatus fossor Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. (first 
ed.), xxiv, p. 20, March 17. New name only for above. 

Phascolomys fuscus Tiedemann, Zool., i, p. 437, ex Geoffroy 
(cf. Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Av., p. 78, preface 
April 1811). King Island, Bass Straits (Peron). 

Phascolomys bassit Lesson, Man. Mamm., p. 229, May. New 
name only. 

Islands of Bass Straits. 


Vombatus ursinus tasmaniensis Spencer and Kershaw, 1910. 
Phascolomys tasmaniensis Spencer and Kershaw, Memoir 

Nat. Mus. Melb., iii, pp. 58, 28, February. Tasmania. 
Tasmania. 


VoMBATUS HIRSUTUS Perry, 1810. 
Common WOMBAT. 

Vombatus hirsutus hirsutus Perry, 1810. 

Opossum hirsutum Perry, Arcana, pl. (21), May. Botany 
Bay, New South Wales. 

Phascolomys mitchellii Mitchell, Three Exped. East Australia, 
ii, p. 362, pl. 30, figs. 4-6, ex Owen MS. Fossil bones ex 
Wellington Caves, New South Wales. | 

Phascolomys platyrhinus Owen, Cat. Osteological Series Coll. 
Surgeons, i, p. 334. Skull only. Australia. | 

Phascolomys assimilis Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1872, 
p. 796, May 1873. No locality. ] 

New South Wales, Eastern Victoria. 


Vombatus hirsutus niger Gould, 1863. 

Phascolomys niger Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. xiii (Vol. i, 
text to pl. lx), May 1. Locality unknown =Port Lincoln, 
South Australia, fide Krefft, 1871. 

Phascolomys angasti Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xi, p. 458, 
June 1. South Australia. 

Phascolomys setosus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xi, p. 458, 
June 1. New name for Phascolomys latifrons as figured 
by Gould, pl. xi, not of Owen. South Australia. 

South-eastern South Australia. 


1863. 


1845. 
1863. 
1863. 


1900. 


1876. 


LUSH 


1876. 


1877. 


1837. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 35 


Genus LASIORHINUS Gray, 1863. 
Lasiorhinus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xi, p. 458, June 1. 
Haplotype, Lasiorhinus m’coyi Gray. 


LASIORHINUS LATIFRONS Owen, 1845. 
HAIRY-NOSED WOMBAT. 

Phascolomys latifrons Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, 
p. 82, October. Skull only from South Australia. 

Phascolomys lasiorhinus Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. xiii (Vol. i, 
pls. lix, lx), May 1. South Australia. 

Lasiorhinus m’coyt Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xi, p. 458, 
June 1. New name for Phascolomys latifrons Angas, 
Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1861, p. 268. South Australia. 

South Australia. 


Genus WOMBATULA nov. 
Type, Phascolomys gillespiei De Vis. 
WOMBATULA GILLESPIEI De Vis, 1900. 
QUEENSLAND WOMBAT. 
Phascolomys gillespiei De Vis, Annals Queensland Mus., 5, 
p. 14. Moonie River, South-East Queensland. 
South Queensland. 


Family MACROPODID A. 
KANGAROOS. 


Subfamily HYPSIPRYMNODONTINZ. 
Genus TLYPSIPRYMNODON Ramsay, 1876. 
Hypsiprymnodon Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., i, p. 33, 
February. Haplotype, Hypsiprymnodon  moschatus 
Ramsay. 
Pleopus Owen, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx, p. 542, December. 
Haplotype, Pleopus nudicaudatus Owen. 


HYPSIPRYMNODON MOSCHATUS Ramsay, 1876. 
Musk RAtT-KANGAROO. 

Hypsiprymnodon moschatus Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soe. NESAWE. 
i, p. 34, February. Rockingham Bay, Queensland 
(Ramsay and Broadbent). 

Pleopus nudicaudatus Owen, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xx, 
p. 542, December. Australia. : 

Queensland. 


Subfamily POTOROIN AB. 
RAT-KANGAROOS. 


Genus BETTONGIA Gray, 1837. 
Bettongia Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth), i, p. 584, 
November. Logotype, Thomas, Cat. Marsupialia and 


f 
| 
i 


36 


1916. 


(c) 
1841. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Monotremata Brit. Mus., p. 104, 1888, Bettongia setosa 
Gray, not Ogilby =Bettongia cuniculus Ogilby. 

Bettongiops Matschie, Mitt. zool. Mus. Berlin, viii, 2, p. 264, 
footnote, April. Orthotype, Hypsiprymnus lesueur Quoy 
and Gaimard. 


BETTONGIA PENICILLATA Gray, 1837. 
BRUSH-TAILED RAT-KANGAROO. 


Bettongia penicillata penicillata Gray, 1837. 

Bettongia penicillata Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth), i, 
p. 584, November. No locality =New South Wales. 

New South Wales, Victoria. 


Bettongia penieillata gouldii Waterhouse, 1846. 

Bettongia gouldii Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., i, p. 219, ex 
Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 94, nom. nud., 
May 13, 1843. Head of Gulph St. Vincent, South 
Australia. 


South Australia. 


Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi Waterhouse, 1841. 

Hypsiprymnus ogilbyi Waterhouse, Nat. Library (Jardine), 
Marsupials, p. 185, August, er Gould MS. Swan River 
(York), West Australia. 


South-Western Australia. 


BETTONGIA GAIMARDI Desmarest, 1822. 
GAIMARD’S RAT-KANGAROO. 


Kangurus gaimardi Desmarest, Tabl. Ency. Meth., Mamm. 
Suppl. ii, p. 542, July 6. Port Jackson, New South 
Wales (Gaimard). 

Hypsiprymnus white Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. “ Uranie,”’ 
Zool., text p. 62; Atlas, pl. x, August 31. Blue 
Mountains, New South Wales. 

Kangurus lepturus Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. “ Uranie,” Zool., 
p. 64, August 31. Alternative name for preceding. 
Hypsiprymnus formosus Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1838, p. 62, July. No locality—New South Wales. 
Hypsiprymnus phillippi Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1838, p. 62, July. No locality =New South Wales. 
Hypsiprymnus hunteri Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), ii, 
p. 408, pl. Ixxi, fig. 4, May 15. Name and figure of 

skull only =New South Wales. 

Potorous minimus Boitard, Jardin des Plantes, p. 295, 
** 1842,” —August 1841; as of “ Desm.” in synonymy. 

New South Wales. 


(a) 


1824. 


(b) 
1841. 


(c) 


1842. 


1838. 


1875. 


1837. 
1838. 


1804. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 37 


BETTONGIA LESUEUR Quoy and Gaimard, 1824. 
LESUEUR’S RAT-KANGAROO. 
Betiongia lesueur lesueur Quoy and Gaimard, 1824. 
Hypsiprymnus lesueur Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. “‘ Uranie,”’ 
Zool., p. 64, August 31. Dirk Hartog’s Island, Shark’s 
Bay, West Australia. 
Mid-Western Australia (Dirk Hartog’s Island). 


Bettongia lesueur grait Gould, 1841. 

Hypsiprymnus graii Gould, Proce. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, 
p. 178, July 1841. Swan River, West Australia. 

South-Western Australia. 


Betiongia lesueur harveyi Waterhouse, 1842. 

Perameles harveyi Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, 
p. 47, November. Port Adelaide (? =Port Lincoln), 
South Australia (J. B. Harvey). 

South Australia. 


BETTONGIA CUNICULUS Ogilby, 1838. 
TASMANIAN RAT-KANGAROO. 
Hypsiprymnus cuniculus Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1838, p. 63, July. No locality =Tasmania. 
Tasmania. 


Genus AAPYPRYMNUS Garrod, 1875. 
Aipyprymnus Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 59, 
June 1. Haplotype, Bettongia rufescens Gray. 


AEPYPRYMNUS RUFESCENS Gray, 1837. 
RuFous RAtT-KANGAROO. 
Bettongia rufescens Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth), i, 
p. 584, November. No locality=New South Wales. 
Hypsiprymnus melanotis Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1838, 
p. 62, July. Based on same specimen. New South 
Wales. 
New South Wales. 


Genus Pororous Desmarest, 1804. 

Potorous Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. (first ed.), 
xxiv, Tabl. Meth. Mamm., p. 20, March. Haplotype, 
Didelphis murinus Cuvier, not Linne=Didelphis tri- 
dactyla Kerr. 

Hypsiprymnus Iliger, Prod. Syst. Mamm. et Av., p. 79, 
preface April. New name for Potorous Desmarest. 
Myorthius Lay, Encycl. Londin. (Wilkes), xxii, p. 743, 

Haplotype, Didelphis tridactyla Kerr. 

Potoroo Berthold, Nat. Fam. Thierreich (Latreille), p. 50 

(preface August 30, 1826). Alternative spelling only. 


38 
1836. 


1916. 


(a) 
1792. 


1841. 
1841. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Patoroo Partington, Brit. Cyclop. Nat. Hist., iii, p. 12, July. 
Haplotype, Macropus minor Shaw. 
Potoroops Matschie, Mitt. zool. Mus. Berlin, viii, 2, p. 264, 
ave April. Haplotype, Hypsiprymnus platyops 
ould. 


POTOROUS TRIDACTYLUS Kerr, 1792. 
LONG-NOSED RAT-KANGAROO. 


Potorous tridactylus tridactylus Kerr, 1792. 

Didelphis tridactyla Kerr, Animal Kingdom (Linné), pt. i, 
p. 198, preface February (cf. Turton, Syst. Nat., i, p. 67, 
1806), based on the Poto Roo White, 286—Sydney, 
New South Wales. 

Didelphis potoru Meyer, Zool. Entdeck, pp. 13, 173, based on 
the Poto Roo White, 286=Sydney, New South Wales. 

Didelphis murina Cuvier, Tabl. Elem., p. 126, January. 
New Holland. Not Didelphis murina Linné, Syst. Nat., 
xth ed., p. 55, 1758. 

Macropus minor Shaw, Gen. Zool., i, 2, p. 513, pl. exvi (dated 
February 1), based on White, Phillip, ete.=Sydney, 
New South Wales. 

Dipus muscola Perry, Arcana, pl. (27), July. New Holland. 

Hypsiprymnus peron Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. ‘“ Uranie,” 
Zool., p. 64, August 31. Skeleton ex Peron coll.= 
New South Wales. 

Hypsiprymnus setosus Ogilby, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soe. 
(Lond.) 1831, p. 149, January 16, 1832. “Swan River 
(Lieut. Matthew Friend),’’ error=New South Wales. 

Hypsiprymnus myosurus Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1838, p. 26, July. No locality =New South Wales. 

Perameles tuckeri Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., v, p. 150, April. 
Australia=New South Wales. 

New South Wales. 


Potorous tridactylus apicalis Gould, 1851. 

Hypsiprymnus apicalis Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. iii (Vol. ii, 
pl. Ixviii). Tasmania. 

Potorous rufus Higgins and Petterd, Proc. Roy. Soe. Tasm., 
1883, pp. 181, 196, pl. ante June 25, 1884. Long’s 
Plains, Tasmania (T. B. Moore) 

Tasmania. 


PoTOROUS GILBERTI Gould, 1841. 
GILBERT’S RAT-KANGAROO. 
Hypsiprymnus gilbertii Gould, Mon. Macrop., pt. i, pl., August. 
King George’s Sound, West Australia (Gilbert). 
Hypsiprymnus micropus Waterhouse, Nat. Library (Jardine), 
Marsupials, p. 180, ev Gould MS., August. On same basis. 
South-Western Australia. 


1844. 


1888. 


1843. 


1839. 


1884. 


1888. 


1887. 


1841. 


1842. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 39 


POTOROUS PLATYOPS Gould, 1844. 
BROAD-FACED RAT-KANGAROO. 
Hypsiprymnus platyops Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1844, 
p. 103, October. Swan River, West Australia (Gilbert), 
South-Western Australia. 


Genus CALOPRYMNUS Thomas, 1888. 
Caloprymnus Thomas, Cat. Marsupialia and Monotremata 
Brit. Mus., p. 114, November 3. Orthotype, Bettongia 
campestris Gould. 


CALOPRYMNUS CAMPESTRIS Gould, 1843. 
DESERT RAT-KANGAROO. 
Bettongia campestris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1843, 
p. 81, December. South Australia. 
South Australia (interior). 


Subfamily MACROPODIN&. 
TRUE KANGAROOS. 
Genus DENDROLAGUS Muller, 1839. 

Dendrolagus Muller, Verh. nat. Gesch. Nederl. overzee. 
Bezitt, i, p. 1388; Zoogd. Ind. Arch., 33, tab., p. 63 (fide 
Sherborn). Logotype, Thomas, Cat. Marsupialia and 
Monotremata Brit. Mus., p. 92, 1888, Dendrolagus 
ursinus Maller. 


DENDROLAGUS LUMHOLTZI Collett, 1884. 
LuMHOLTZ’S TREE-KANGAROO. 

Dendrolagus lumholizi Collett, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1884, 
-p. 387, pl. xxxii, figs. 7, 8, October 1. Herbert Vale, 
North Queensland (C. Lumboltz). 

Dendrolagus fuluus De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, iv, 
p. 132, after April, ex “ Evening Observer,’ Brisbane, 
October 17, 1887. Herberton, North Queensland (D. 
Mowbray). 

North Queensland. 


DENDROLAGUS BENNETTIANUS De Vis, 1887. 
SOMBRE OR BENNETT’S TREE-KANGAROO. 

Dendrolagus bennettianus De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, 
ili, 1886, p. 13, August 1887 (ew Abstr. Proce. Linn. Soe. 
New South Wales, October 27, 1886, p. 5, nom. nad.). 
Daintree River, Queensland (Smith). 

North Queensland. 


Genus LAGORCHESTES Gould, 1841. 
Lagorchestes Gould, Mon. Macrop., pt. i, text to pl. xii, August. 
Orthotype, Macropus leporides Gould. 
Lagocheles Owen, Cyclop. Anat. and Physiol. (Todd), ii, 
p. 330, nom. nud. 


40 MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


LAGORCHESTES LEPORIDES Gould, 1841. 
FIARE-WALLABY. 
1841. Macropus leporides Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, 
p. 93, April 1841. Interior of Australia, 7.e., New 
South Wales. 
1859. Lagorchestes gymnotis Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soe. Bengal, 
xxvii, p. 276. No locality New South Wales. 
Interior of New South Wales and South Australia (extinct ?). 


LAGORCHESTES CONSPICILLATUS Gould, 1842. 
SPECTACLED HARE-WALLABY. 
(a) Lagorchestes conspicillatus conspicillatus Gould, 1842. 
1842. Lagorchestes conspicillatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1841, p. 82, March 1842. Barrow Island, North-West 
Australia (Capt. Wickham). 
Western Australia (Barrow Island). 


(b)  Lagorchestes conspicillatus leichardtti Gould, 1853. 
1853. Lagorchestes leichardti Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. v (Vol. ii, 
pl. lx). Between Port Essington and Gulf of Carpentaria, 
North Australia. 
North Australia. 


(ce) Lagorchestes conspicillatus pallidior Thomas and Dollman, 1909. 
1909. Lagorchestes conspicillatus pallidior Thomas and Dollman, 
Proce. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1908, p. 793, April 1909. 
Inkerman, North Queensland (Stalker). 
Mid-North Queensland. 


LAGORCHESTES HIRSUTUS Gould, 1844. 
WESTERN HARE-WALLABY. 
(a)  Lagorchestes hirsutus hirsutus Gould, 1844. 
1844. Lagorchestes hirsutus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1844, 
p. 32, July. York District, West Australia. 
South-Western Australia. 


(b)  Lagorchestes hirsutus berniert Thomas, 1907. 
1907. Lagorchestes hirsutus bernieri Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1906, p. 775, April 1907. Bernier Island, Shark’s Bay, 
West Australia (G. C. Shortridge). 
Mid-Western Australia (Bernier Island). 


(c)  Lagorchestes hirsutus dorrew Thomas, 1907. 
1907. Lagorchestes hirsutus dorree Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1906, p. 775, April 1907. Dorré Island, Shark’s Bay, 
West Australia (J. T. Tunney). 
Mid-Western Australia (Dorré Island). 


Genus LAGOSTROPHUS Thomas, 1887. 
1887. Lagostrophus Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1886, p. 544, 
April 1, 1887. Haplotype, Kangurus fasciatus Péron 
and Lesueur. 


1807. 


1816. 


1842. 
1842. 


1841. 


(a) 


1841. 


(b) 


1884. 


1841. 


1841, 


1904. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 41 


LAGOSTROPHUS FASCIATUS Peron and Lesueur, 1807. 
BANDED WALLABY. 

Kangurus fasciatus Péron and Lesueur, Voy. Terres. Austral., 
Atlas, pl. xxvii (Vol. i, p. 114, 1816). Bernier Island, 
Shark’s Bay, West Australia. 

Macropus elegans Cuvier, Regne Animal, i, p. 183, “1817” = 
December 16, 1816 ; based on Péron’s plate above cited. 
Not Macropus elegans Lambert, 1807, post. 

Lagorchestes albvpilis Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., x, p. 2, 
September. Western Australia (Priess). 

Halmaturus striatus Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Regne Anim. Mamm., 
p. 195, November. New name only for above. 

Mid-Western Australia. 


Genus ONYCHOGALEA Gray, 1841. 

Onychogalea Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Austr. (Grey), ii, App., 
p. 402, November. Logotype, Thomas, Cat. Marsupialia 
and Monotremata Brit. Mus., p. 73, 1888, Macropus 
unguifer Gould. 


ONYCHOGALEA UNGUIFER Gould, 1841. 
NORTHERN NAIL-TAIL WALLABY. 

Onychogalea unguifer unguifer Gould, 1841. 

Macropus unguifer Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, 
p. 93, April 1841. North-West Coast of Australia, 7.e., 
King Sound (Derby). Cf. Stokes, Disc. Austr., i, p. 103, 
1846. 

North-Western Australia. 


Onychogalea unguifer annulicauda De Vis, 1884. 

Onychogalea annulicauda De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, 
i, p. 157, ew p. 154, nom. nud., ante June 25. Kimberley, 
Norman River, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. 

West Queensland, North Australia. 


ONYCHOGALEA FREZNATA Gould, 1841. 
BRIDLED NAIL-TAIL WALLABY. 
Macropus frenatus Gould, Proe. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, 
p. 92, April 1841. Interior of New South Wales. 
New South Wales, Victoria. 


ONYCHOGALEA LUNATA Gould, 1841. 
CRESCENT NAIL-TAIL WALLABY. 
Macropus lunatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, p. 93, 
April 1841. West Coast of Australia. 
South-Western Australia. 


Genus PERADORCAS Thomas, 1904. 
Peradoreas Thomas, Nov. Zool., xi, p. 226, March 25. Haplo- 
type, Petrogale concinna Gould. 


| 
i 
| 


(b) 
1909. 


(¢) 
1926. 


1837. 


1837. 


1827. 


1837. 


1865. 


(a) 
1842. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


PERADORCAS CONCINNA Gould, 1842. 
LirtLteE Rock-WALLABY. 

Peradorcas concinna concinna Gould, 1842. 

Petrogale concinna Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (ond.) 1842, p. 57, 
November. North-West Coast of Australia (Lieut. 
Emery, “ Beagle ’’)=Victoria River (=Wyndham). Cf. 
Stokes, Dise. Austr., i, p. 193, 1846. 

North-West Australia. 


Peradorcas concinna canescens Thomas, 1909. 

Peradoreas concinna canescens Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(8) iv, p. 198, September 1. Nellie Creek, Arnhem Land 
(ees Due ys) 

North Australia. 


Peradoreas concinna monastria Thomas, 1926. 

Peradorcas concinna monastria Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) xvii, p. 630, June1. Napier Broome Bay, North-West 
Australia (G. F. Hill). 

North-Western Australia. 


Genus PETROGALE Gray, 1837. 

Petrogale Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth), i, p. 583, Nov. 
Haplotype, Kangurus penicillatus Griffith, Smith and 
Pidgeon. 

Heteropus Jourdan, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, v, 
p. 522, Oct.; Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris (2), viii, p. 368, Dec. 
Haplotype, H. albogularis Jourdan. Not Heteropus 
Fitzinger, N. Class Rept., 1826, p. 23. 


PETROGALE PENICILLATA Griffith, Smith and Pidgeon, 1827. 
BRUSH-TAILED ROCK-WALLABY. 

Kangurus penicillatus Griffith, Smith and Pidgeon, Anim. 
Kingdom (Cuvier), Mamm., iii, plate only, dated Dee. 1, 
1825; Syn. v, p. 204, based on drawing by Lewin. 
New Holland =Sydney, N.S.W. 

Heteropus albogularis Jourdan, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. 
Paris, v, p. 522, Oct.; Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris (2), vii, 
p. 368, Dec. Mountains south-east of Sydney, N.S.W. 

Petrogale longicauda Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1865, 
p. 324, June 13. Rylstone, 250 miles north-west of 
Sydney, N.S.W. (G. Masters). 

New South Wales. 


PETROGALE INORNATA Gould, 1842. 
PLAIN RocK-WALLABY. 

Petrogale inornata inornata Gould, 1842. 

Petrogale inornata Gould, Mon. Macrop., pt. 2, May. North 
Coast of Australia (Coll. B. Bynoe, ‘‘ Beagle ”)=Cape 
Upstart, Queensland. Cf. Stokes, Dise. Austr., i, p. 336, 
footnote, 1846. f 


1877. 


(b) 


1926. 


(c) 
1926. 


(d) 


1924. 


(e) 
1923. 


1926. 


1926. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 43 


Petrogale assimilis Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., i, p. 360, 
March. Palm Island, north of Townsville, North 
Queensland. 

Coastal North Queensland and islands (about 18° to 21°S. lat.). 


Petrogale inornata herberti Thomas, 1926. 

Petrogale herberti Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xvii, 
p. 626, June. Hidsvold, Burnett River, South Queens- 
land (T. Sherrin). 

South Queensland (about 23° to 26° 8S. lat.). 


Petrogale mornata puella Thomas, 1926. 

Petrogale puella Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xvii, p. 627, 
June. Upper Flinders River and Torrens Creek, North 
Queensland (J. EH. Young, Wilkins Expedition). 

Central North-East Queensland. 


Petrogale inornata purpureicollis Le Souef, 1924. 

Petrogale purpureicollis Le Souef, Austr. Zoologist, iii, p. 274, 
Oct. 7. Dajarra, north-west Queensland (Wilson B. 
Sinclair). 

West-Central Queensland. 


Petrogale inornata godmani Thomas, 1923. 

Petrogale godmani Thomas, Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond. 
1923, No. 235, p. 13, Feb. 10; Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1923, p. 177, April. Black Mt., 16 miles south-west of 
Cooktown, N. Queensland (T. Sherrin). 

North-East Queensland. 


PETROGALE LONGMANI Thomas, 1926. 
LONGMAN’S RocK-WALLABY. 


Petrogale longmani longmanit Thomas, 1926. 

Petrogale longmani Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xvii, 
p. 186, Jan. Groote Hylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
N. Territory (Wilkins). 

North Australia (Groote Eylandt). 


Petrogale longmani venustula Thomas, 1926. 

Petrogale venustula Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xvii, 
p. 628, June. King River, Upper Daly River, N. Territory 
(Wilkins). 

North Australia. 


PETROGALE WILKINSI Thomas, 1926. 
RopeR RIvER Rock-WALLABY. 
Petrogale wilkinsi Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xvii, 
p. 185, Jan. Roper River, N. Territory (Wilkins). 
North Australia. 


tA 


1926. 


1904. 


(a) 
1855. 


1924. 


1842. 


1905. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


PETROGALE BRACHYOTIS Gould, 1841. 
SHORT-EARED ROCK-WALLABY. 

Petrogale brachyotis brachyotis Gould, 1841. 

Macropus (Petrogale) brachyotis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1840, p. 128, July 1841. Swan River, W.A.—Hanover 
Bay, North-West Australia (Capt. G. Grey). 

North Western Australia. 


Petrogale brachyotis signata Thomas, 1926. 

Petrogale brachyotis signata Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) xvii, p. 629, June. Mary River, N. Territory (Dahl). 

Western North Australia. 


PETROGALE ROTHSCHILDI Thomas, 1904. 
ROTHSCHILD’S RocK-WALLABY. 
Petrogale rothschildi Thomas, Nov. Zool., xi, p. 366, March 25. 
Cossack River, North-West Australia (J. T. Tunney). 
Mid Western Australia. 


PETROGALE XANTHOPUS Gray, 1855. 
BAR-TAILED RoOCK-WALLABY. 

Petrogale xanthopus xanthopus Gray, 1855. 

Petrogale xanthopus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1854, p. 259, 
Mamm., p. xxxix, April 11, 1855. Australia (Richmond. 
River ? error=South Australia, Strange). 

Phalangista wanthopygus Giebel, Klass. Ordn. (Bronn), vi, 
Abth. v, pl. xx, fig. 47. Error only. 

South Australia, New South Wales (interior), Victoria 
(? interior). 


Petrogale xanthopus celeris Le Souef, 1924. 

Petrogale celeris Le Souef, Austr. Zoologist, iii, p. 273, Oct. 7. 
Adavale, Bulloo River, South-West Queensland. 

South-Western Queensland. 


PETROGALE LATERALIS Gould, 1842. 
BLACK-FLANKED ROCK-WALLABY. 

Petrogale lateralis Gould, Mon. Macrop., pt. 2, May. West 
Australia (Swan River, coll. Gilbert). Not P. lateralis 
Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Austr. (Grey), ii, App., p. 403, 
Nov. 1841, nom. nud. Liverpool Plains, N.S.W. 

Western and South Australia. 


PETROGALE HACKETTI Thomas, 1905. 
RECHERCHE ROCK-WALLABY. 

Petrogale lateralis hacketti Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(7) xvi, p. 425, Oct. Mondrain Is., Recherche Group, 
South-Western Australia. 

South-Western Australia (Mondrain and Coombe Islands). 


1922. 


1842. 


1830. 


1838. 


1837. 


1866. 


1884. 


(a) 
1860. 


(b) 
1866. 


1884. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 45 


PETROGALE PEARSONI Thomas, 1922. 
PEARSON ISLAND ROCK-WALLABY. 

Petrogale pearsoni Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ix, 
p. 682, June. Pearson Island, Investigator Group, 
South Australia (Wood Jones). 

South Australia (Pearson Island). 


Genus SETONIX Lesson, 1842. 
Setonix Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Regn. Anim., Mamm., p. 194, 
November. Haplotype, Kangurus brachyurus Quoy and 
Gaimard. 


SETONIX BRACHYURUS Quoy and Gaimard, 1830. 
QUOKKA OR SHORT-TAILED PADEMELON. 

Kangarus brachyurus Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrol., 
Zool., i, p. 114; Atlas, pl. xix. King George’s Sound, 
South-West Australia. 

Halmaturus (Lhylogale) brevicaudatus Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., 
i, p. 108, April. Emendation only. 

South Western Australia, mainland and Rottnest Island. 


Genus THYLOGALE Gray, 1837. 
Thylogale Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth), i, p. 583, 
November. Haplotype, Halmaturus eugeniti Desmarest. 


THYLOGALE COXENIL Gray, 1866. 
CAPE YORK PADEMELON. 

Halmaturus coxenii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1866, 
p. 220, pl. xxv, September 5. Port Albany, Cape York, 
Queensland (C. Coxen). 

Halmaturus gazella De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, i, 
p. 110, ante June 25. Somerset, Cape York, Queensland. 

North Queensland (Cape York). 


THYLOGALE STIGMATICA Gould, 1860. 
RED-LEGGED PADEMELON. 

Thylogale stigmatica stigmatica Gould, 1860. 

Thylogale stigmatica Gould, Mamm, Austr., pt. xii (Vol. ii 
pls. 33-34). Point Cooper, north of Rockingham Bay, 
Queensland (Macgillivray). 

North-East Queensland. 


Thylogale stigmatica wilcoxt M’Coy, 1866. 

Halmaturus wileoxt M’Coy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xviii, 
p. 322, October 1. Richmond River, New South Wales 
(Wilcox). 

Halmaturus temporalis De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, 
i, p. 111, ante June 25. Moreton Bay, Queensland. 

North-East New South Wales and South-East Queensland. 


46 


1827. 


1842. 


1846. 


1924. 


(a) 
1817. 


(b) 
1837. 


1841. 


1844. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


THYLOGALE THETIS Lesson, 1827. 
RED-NECKED PADEMELON. 


Halmaturus thetis Lesson, Man. Mamm., p. 229, May 10. 
Sydney, New South Wales. 

Halmaturus nuchalis Wagner, Saéugthiere (Schreber), Suppl., 
iii, p. 128 (Hefte 111-112), November 30, 1842 (Water- 
house). New South Wales. 

New South Wales. 


THYLOGALE PARMA Waterhouse, 1846. 
PARMA, OR WHITE-THROATED PADEMELON. 


Macropus (Halmaturus) parma Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., 
i, p. 149 (ew Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Australia (Grey), 
ii, App., p. 403, November 1841, nom. nud.; and Gray, 
List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 91, May 13, 1843, 
nom. nud., ex Gould MS). (Sydney), New South Wales. 
New South Wales (south coast, possibly extinct). 


THYLOGALE FLINDERSI Wood Jones, 1924. 
FLINDERS JSLAND PADEMELON. 


Thylogale flindersi Wood Jones, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., 
xlviii, p. 11, December 24. Flinders Island, Nuyt’s 
Archipelago, South Australia. 

South Australia (Flinders Island, Nuyt’s Archipelago). 


THYLOGALE EUGENIL Desmarest, 1817. 
DAMA PADEMELON ; TAMMAR (W.A.). 


Thylogale eugenti eugenti Desmarest, 1817. 

Kangurus eugenit Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., 
nouv. ed., xvii, p. 38, December 27. Te Hugene, 
Josephine Archipelago—St. Peter’s Island, Nuyt’s 
Archipelago, South Australia. 

South Australia, Kangaroo Island, Recherche Group, South- 
Western Australia. 


Thylogale eugenii derbiana Gray, 1837. 
Halmaturus derbianus Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth), 
i, p. 583, November. No locality West Australia. 
Halmaturus derbianus var. obscurior Gray, Journ. Two Exped. 
Australia (Gray), ii, App., p. 403, November, nom. nud. 
Rottnest (2? error) and Garden Islands, West Australia. 
Macropus gracilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1844, p. 103, 
~ October. Wilyema Swamps, 40 miles north-east of 
Northam, West Australia (Gilbert), 
South-Western Australia (mainland and Garden Tsland). 


(¢) 
1842. 


1844. 


1844. 
1846. 


1900. 


1905. 


(a) 
1842. 
1898. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 47 


Thylogale eugenii binoé Gould, 1842. 

Halmaturus binoé Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, 
pp. 57-58, November. “Port Essington (Benjamin 
Bynoe),” error=Wallaby Island, Houtman’s Abrolhos, 
West Australia (ef. Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 
p. 90, May 13, 1843), 

Halmaturus houtmanni Gould, Proce. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1844, 
p. 31, July. No locality =Houtman’s Abrolhos, West 
Australia. 

Halmaturus dama Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1844, p. 32, 
July. Houtman’s Abrolhos, West Australia. 

Halmaturus emilie Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., i, p. 157, 
ex Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 90, May 13, 
1843, nom. nud. Same locality. 

Western Australia (Houtman’s Abrolhos). 


THYLOGALE BILLARDIERIL Desmarest, 1822. 
TASMANIAN, OR RUFOUS-BELLIED PADEMELON. 


Kangurus billardierti Desmarest, Tabl. Ency. Meth., Mamm., 
Suppl. ii, p. 542, July 6. Tasmania (Labillardiére). 
Halmaturus (Thylogale) tasmanei Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., i, 

p. 108, April 1. Tasmania. 

Macropus (Halmaturus) rufiventer Ogilby, Ann. Nat. Hist., 
i, p. 220, May ; Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1838, p. 23, July. 
Tasmania. 

Halmaturus brachytarsus Wagner, Saugthiere (Schreber), 
Suppl. iii, p. 121 (Hefte 111-112), November 30 (Water- 
house). Tasmania. 

Tasmania and islands of Bass Straits, Victoria, South 
Australia (? extinct). 


[THYLOGALE BEDFORDI Thomas, 1900. 
Macropus bedfordi Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1900, 
p. 112, June 1. Female died in captivity; “said to 
have been brought from Queensland or North Australia.”’ ] 


Genus WALLABIA Trouessart, 1905. 
Wallabia Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. viv. et foss., Suppl. fase. iv, 
p. 834, footnote. Tautotype, Kangurus ualabatus 
Lesson=Kangurus bicolor Desmarest. 


WALLABIA AGILIS Gould, 1842. 
SANDY WALLABY. 
Wallabia agilis agilis Gould, 1842. 
Halmaturus agilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1841, p. 81, 
March 1842. Port Essington, North Australia. 
Dorcopsis (?) aurantiacus Rothschild, Nov. Zool., v, p. 513, 
December 31. ‘‘ New Guinea” =agilis, fide Schwarz, 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) v, p. 165, 1910. 
North Australia. 


48 
(b) 


1884. 


(¢) 
1910. 


(d) 


1913. 


(a) 
1804. 
1827. 
1837. 


1842. 


(b) 
1871. 


1909. 


1922. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Wallabia agilis jardinii De Vis, 1884. 

Halmaturus jardinii De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, i, 
p. 109, ante June 25. Cape York, North Queensland 
(K. Broadbent). 

Queensland (Cape York to Stradbroke Island, fide Longman). 


Wallabia agilis aurescens Schwarz, 1910. 

Macropus agilis aurescens Schwarz, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(8) v, p. 166, February. Fitzroy River, North-West 
Australia (J. T. Tunney). 

North-Western Australia. 


Wallabia agilis nigrescens Lonnberg, 1913. 

Macropus agilis nigrescens Lonnberg, Kungl. Sv. Vetensk. 
Akad. Handl., 52, 1, p. 8, September 26. Near Broome, 
North-West Australia (Mjoberg). 

North-Western Australia. 


WALLABIA BICOLOR Desmarest, 1804. 
BLACK-TAILED, OR SWAMP WALLABY. 

Wallabia bicolor bicolor Desmarest, 1804. 

Kangurus bicolor Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. (first 
ed.), fide Wood Jones. =New South Wales. 

Kangurus ualabatus Lesson and Garnot, Voy. “ Coquille,” 
Zool. i, p. 131-161, livr. 4, July 25; pl. vii, January 17. 
New South Wales. 

Halmaturus lessonii Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth), 
i, p. 583, November. No locality New South Wales. 

Halmaturus nemoralis Wagner, Saugthiere (Schreber), Suppl. 
iii, p. 114 (Hefte 111-112), November 30 (Waterhouse). 
New South Wales. 

New South Wales, Victoria. 


Wallabia bicolor mastersti Krefft, 1871. 

Halmaturus mastersii Krefit, Mamm. Austr., text to Great 
Kangaroo, p. 3 (preface October 28), ex Austr. Vertebrata, 
fossil and recent (Melbourne Exposition, pp. 53-401 ; 
Paris Exposition, p. 96), separate p. 10, 1867 ; nom. nud. 
Burnett River, Queensland (Masters). 

Macropus ualabatus ingrami Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1908, p. 792, pl. xlii, April 1909. Inkerman, Queensland 
(Stalker). 

Mid-Queensland. 


WALLABIA WELSBYI Longman, 1922. 
RUFOUS STRADBROKE ISLAND WALLABY. 
Macropus welsbyi Longman, Mem. Queensland Mus., vii, 
p. 298, December 19. Stradbroke Island, Moreton Bay, 
South Queensland (Thomas Welsby). 
South Queensland (Stradbroke Island). 


1838. 
1838. 


1842. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 49 


WALLABIA RUFOGRISEA Desmarest, 1817. 
RED-NECKED, SCRUB, OR HASTERN BRUSH WALLABY. 
Wallabia rufogrisea rufogrisea Desmarest, 1817. 

Kangurus rufogriseus Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., 
nouy. ed., xvii, p. 36, December 27, ex Geoffroy MS. 
(Not in Sherborn.) New Holland=King Island, Bass 
Strait. 

Halmaturus kingit Wliger, Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 
1804-1811, p. 102, 1815, nom. nud. (fide Sherborn). 
Kangurus ruficollis Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., 
nouv. ed., xvii, p. 37, December 27, ex Peron and Lesueur 

MS. King Island. 

Halmaturus griseorufus Goldfuss, Isis (Oken), 1819, col. 267, 
ex Geoffroy =rufogriseus Desmarest, above. 

Halmaturus griseorufus Schinz, Das Thierreich (Cuvier), i, 
p. 264, ex Geoffroy. New Holland. 

Kangurus griseus Griffith, Smith and Pidgeon, Anim. Kingdom 
(Cuvier), v, Ssynop., p. 202, error only, as of Desmarest. 

Kangurus vinosus Boitard, Jardin des Plantes, p. 298, 
“1842 ” —August 1841, ex F. Cuvier MS. King Island, 
Bass Strait. 

Islands of Bass Strait. 


Wallabia rufogrisea frutica Ogilby, 1838. 

Macropus (Halmaturus) fruticus Ogilby, Ann. Nat. Hist., i, 
p. 219, May 1. Tasmania. 

Macropus bennetti Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1837, 
p. 103, May 25. New South Wales, error Tasmania. 

Halmaturus leptonyx Wagner, Siugthiere (Schreber), Suppl. iii 
(Hefte 111-112), p. 116, November 30 (Waterhouse). No 
locality. 


(? 1830. Macropus albus Gray, Spic. Zool., pt. ii, p. 10, August 1. 


(¢) 
1825. 


1842. 


No locality. ] 
Tasmania. 


Wallabia rufogrisea banksiana Quoy and Gaimard, 1825. 


Kangurus banksianus Quoy and Gaimard, Ann. Sci. Nat. 
(Paris) (1) v, p. 481, note, August. Blue Mountains, 
New South Wales (Barallier). 

Halmaturus rutilans Hamilton Smith, Nat. Libr. (Jardine), i, 
Introd. Mamm., p. 311, pl. xxix, ew Licht. in Berlin Mus. 
(=Halmaturus rutilus Lichtenstein, Zool. Mus. Univ. 
Berlin, ed. 2, p. 17, 1818, nom. nud., fide Sherborn, ex 
“ Tiliger, Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, Halmaturus rutilans, 
1804-1811, p. 102, 1815, nom. nud., fide Sherborn. No 
locality.””) New South Wales. 

South Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, ? South 
Australia (Mt. Gambier). 


1837. 


1807. 


1835. 


1837. 


1846. 


1837. 


1841. 


1842. 


1874. 


1903. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


WALLABIA DORSALIS Gray, 1837. 
BLACK-STRIPED WALLABY. 


Halmaturus dorsalis Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth), 
i, p. 583, November. No locality=Interior of New 
South Wales (Namoi Hills, fide Gould). 

New South Wales and South-Eastern Queensland. 


WALLABIA ELEGANS Lambert, 1807. 
WHIPTAIL, GREY-FACE, OR PRETTY-FACE WALLABY. 


Macropus elegans Lambert, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.) viii, 
p. 381, pl. xvi. New South Wales. 

Macropus parryi Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1834, 
p. 151, April 3, 1835; Trans. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), i, 
p. 295, pl. xxxvii. Stroud, near Port Stephens, New 
South Wales (Capt. Parry), 

Halmaturus parryi var. pallida Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charles- 
worth), i, p. 583, November. “‘Swan River Wallaroo,” 
error =New South Wales. 

New South Wales and South-Eastern Queensland. 


WALLABIA GREYI Waterhouse, 1846. 
TOOLACH, OR GREY’S WALLABY. 

Macropus (Halmaturus) greyi Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., 
i, p. 122, ex Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 90, 
May 138, 1843, nom. nud. South Australia (Capt. Grey). 
=Coorong, fide G. F. Angas. 


South-Eastern South Australia. 


WALLABIA IRMA Jourdan, 1837. 
BLACK-GLOVED OR WESTERN BRUSH WALLABY. 


Halmaturus irma Jourdan, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, 
v, p. 523, October; Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris (2) viii, p. 371, 
December. Swan River, West Australia. 

Macropus (Halmaturus) manicatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.) 1840, p. 127, July 1841. Swan River, West 
Australia. 

South Western Australia. 


Genus OSPHRANTER Gould, 1842. 
WALLAROOS, HURO. 


Osphranter Gould, Proce. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1841, p. 380, 
March 1842. Haplotype, Osphranter antilopinus Gould. 

Phascolagus Owen, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond., clxiv, 
1874, -pp. 262, 245. Haplotype, Macropus erubescens 
Sclater. 

Dendrodorcopsis Rothschild, Nov. Zool., x, p. 414, December 
20. Haplotype, Dendrodorcopsis woodwardi Rothschild = 
Macropus bernardus Rothschild. 


(a) 


1842. 


(b) 


1901. 


1904. 


TREE 


(c) 
1900. 


1910. 


1842. 


(a) 


1870. 


1871. 


1905. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 51 


OSPHRANTER ANTILOPINUS Gould, 1842. 
NORTH-WESTERN OR ANTILOPINE WALLAROO. 


Osphranter antilopinus antilopinus Gould, 1842. 

Osphranter antilopinus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1841, 
p. 80, March 1842. Port Essington, North Australia. 

North Australia. 


Osphranter antilopinus woodwardi Thomas, 1901. 

Macropus robustus woodward: Thomas, Nov. Zool., viii, p. 395, 
December 31. Grant Range, near Fitzroy River, 
Kimberley District, North Western Australia (J. T. 
Tunney). 

Macropus robustus alligatoris Thomas, Nov. Zool., xi, p. 224, 
March 25. South Alligator River, Northern Territory 
(J. T. Tunney). 

Macropus robustus bracteator Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(8) vii, p. 609, June. McClintock Range, east Kimberley 
District, North Western Australia (J. P. Rogers). 

North Western and North Australia. 


Osphranter antilopinus cervinus Thomas, 1900. ' 

Macropus robustus cervinus Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1900, p. 113, June 1. Yalgoo, Murchison District, mid- 
Western Australia. 

Macropus robusius rubens Schwarz, Nov. Zool., xvii, p. 99, 
March 3. Box Soak, Shaw River, mid-Western Australia 
(ik. Dunney): 

Mid-Western Australia. 


OSPHRANTER ISABELLINUS Gould, 1842. 
Barrow ISLAND WALLAROO. 


Osphranter (?) isabellinus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1841, p. 81, March 1842. Barrow Island, mid-coast of 
Western Australia. 

Barrow Island, Western Australia. 


OSPHRANTER ERUBESCENS Sclater, 1870. 
EuRO, OR CENTRAL WALLAROO. 


Osphranter erubescens erubescens Sclater, 1870. 

Macropus erubescens Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1870, 
p. 126, June 2. Lake Hope, 200 miles interior from 
Port Augusta, South Australia. 

Osphranter crebescens Waterhouse (F. G.), South Australia 
(Hareus), p. 284, January. Error only. 

Macropus argentatus Rothschild, Nov. Zool., xii, p. 509, 
September 20. Northern Territory. 

Central Australia. 


rt 


52 


(b) 
1910. 


1910. 


1841. 


1903. 


1904. 


1848. 


1855. 
1874. 


(a) 
1822. 
1823. 


1825. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 


Osphranter erubescens alecandrie Schwarz, 1910. 
Macropus robustus alexandrie Schwarz, Nov. Zool., xvii, 
102, March 3. Alexandria, Northern Territory 
(Stalker). Skull only, ? =erubescens. 
North Australia (Alexandria). 


OSPHRANTER REGINA Schwarz, 1910. 
NORTH QUEENSLAND WALLAROO. 

Macropus robustus reginw Schwarz, Noy. Zool., xvii, p. 103, 
March 3. Mt. Abbott, south-east of Townsville, North 
Queensland. 

North-Fast Queensland. 


OSPHRANTER ROBUSTUS Gould, 1841. 
EASTERN OR DUSKY WALLAROO. 

Macropus (Petrogale) robustus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1840, p. 92, April 1841. Summits of mountain tops in 
interior of New South Wales. 

New South Wales. 


OSPHRANTER BERNARDUS Rothschild, 1904. 
LitTLE NORTHERN OR BERNARD’S WALLAROO. 
Dendrodorcopsis woodwardi Rothschild, Nov. Zool., x, p. 414, 
December 20. Head of South Alligator River, Northern 
Territory (J. T. Tunney). 
Macropus bernardus Rothschild, Nov. Zool., x, p. 548, March. 
New name for woodwardi Rothschild, nee Thomas. 
North Australia (South Alligator River District). 


Genus MEGALEIA Gistel, 1848. 

Megaleia Gistel, Nat. Thierr. hoh. Schulen, p. ix, pref. Easter 
1847. Haplotype, Halmaturus laniger Gaimard = rufus 
Desmarest. 

Gerboides Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm., ii, p. 271, ew Geoffroy 
MS. Orthotype, Kangurus rufus Desmarest. 

Boriogale Owen, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. (Lond.), elxiv, p. 247. 
Haplotype, Macropus (B.) magnus Owen; based on 
skull only. 


MEGALEIA RUFA Desmarest, 1822. 
RED KANGAROO. 

Megalera rufa rufa Desmarest, 1822. 

Kangurus rufus Desmarest, Tabl. Eneycel. Meth. Mamm., 
ii, p. 541, July 6. Blue Mountains, New Holland 
(Gaimard). 

Kangarus laniger Gaimard, Bull. Soc. Sci. Philom. (Paris), 
p. 138, September. Port Macquarie, New Holland, 
ex Fraser. 

Kangurus griseolanosus Quoy and Gaimard, Ann. Sci. Nat. 
Paris, v, p. 482, August. Blue Mountains, New South 
Wales. ; 


1827. 


1829. 
1843. 
1861. 


1862. 


1874. 


(b) 


1905. 


1906. 


1910. 


1907. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 53 


Macropus lanigerus Griffith, Smith and Pidgeon, Anim. Kingd. 
(Cuvier), plate only, dated March. Bathurst Plains, 
New South Wales (Lewin). 

Kangurus lanosus Griffith and others, Anim. Kingd. (Cuvier), 
v, p. 202, as of Gaimard in synonymy. 

Kangurus lanosus Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 88, 
May 13, as of Gaimard in synonymy. Grayism only. 

Macropus (Osphranter) pictus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1860, p. 373, nom. nud., error only, cf. Gould, Mamm. 
Austr., i, Introd. p. xxix, May 1, 1863. 

Macropus ruber Crisp, Proce. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1862, p. 135, 
September 15; lapsus for rufus only. 

Macropus (Boriogale) magnus Owen, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. 
(Lond.), clxiv, p. 247, pl. xx, figs. 12, 17, 26, teeth. Far 
north of South Australia (F. G. Waterhouse). 

New South Wales, Victoria, South and Central Australia, 
Queensland. 


Megaleia rufa dissimulata Rothschild, 1905. 

Macropus rufus dissimulatus Rothschild, Nov. Zool., xii, 
p. 508, September 20. Shipped from North-West 
Australia = Gascoyne River, mid-Western Australia 
(Glauert). 

Macropus rufus oceidentalis Cahn, Zool. Beobbachter, xlvii, 
p. 361. Murchison River, mid-Western Australia. 
Macropus rufus pallidus Schwarz, Nov. Zool., xvii, p. 89, 

March 3. Shaw River, mid-Western Australia (J. T. 
Tunney). 
Mid-Western Australia (Geraldton to the Shaw River). 


[MACROPUS HAGENBECKI Rothschild, 1907. 


Macropus hagenbecki Rothschild, Nov. Zool., xiv, p. 333, 
March 20, for M. magnus Rothschild, Nov. Zool., xii, 
p. 509, September 20, 1905, nec. of Owen. From North- 
West Australia or Northern Territory. A hybrid between 
M. robustus cervinus and M. rufus occidentalis, fide 
Schwarz, Der Zoologische Garten (NF), Bd. iv, 6-7, 
1931, pp. 197-203, figs. 1-5. Glauert in litt. gives 
definite type locality as “‘ north of the Murchison.’’] 


Genus MAcropus Shaw, 1790. 


Macropus Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., i, text to pl. xxiii. 
Haplotype, M. giganteus =Macropus major Shaw. 

Gigantomys Link, Beytr. Nat., i (1), p. 70, on same basis as 
preceding, name of species G. cangura, but description 
here referable. 

Kangurus Geoftroy and Cuvier, Mag. Encycl., ii (6), p. 188, 
on same basis. 

Kanguroo Lacépéde, Tabl. Mamm., p. 6, on same basis. 


54 


1811. 


1835. 
1837. 
1841. 


1800. 
ASL. 
ARSE 


1819. 


1842. 


1923. 


1817. 


1842. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Halmaturus Mliger, Prod. syst. Mamm. et Av., p. 80, preface 
April; new name for “ Kanguru La Cép., Kangurus 
Geoffr.” 

Kalmaturus Gervais, Dict. Pict. Hist. Nat., ii, p. 533; error 
only. 

Zebua Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth), ii, p. 582, 
November ; error only. 

Halmatopus Wagner, Arch. fiir Nat. (Wiegm.), Jahrg. vii, Bd. 
ii, p. 8; error only. 


Macropus MAgJoR Shaw, 1800. 
GREY KANGAROO. 

Macropus major Shaw, Gen. Zool., i, 2, p. 505, pl. exv (dated 
February 1). Sydney, New South Wales. 

Dipus tridactylus Perry, Arcana, pl. (63), April. New South 
Wales. 

Kangurus labiatus Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., 
nouv. ed., xvii, p. 33, December 27, ex Geoffroy MS. 
New South Wales. 

Halmaturus griseofuscus Goldfuss, Isis (Oken), 1819, col. 266, 
New South Wales. 

Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 


MACROPUS OCYDROMUS Gould, 1842. 
WESTERN GREY KANGAROO. 
Macropus ocydromus Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., x, p. 1, 
September. Swan River, West Australia (Preiss). 
South Western Australia (Geraldton to Esperance). 


MACROPUS TASMANIENSIS Le Souef, 1923. 
TASMANIAN KANGAROO. 


Macropus giganteus tasmaniensis Le Souef, Austr. Zool., iii, 
p. 145, August 15. Tasmania. 
Tasmania. 


MACROPUS FULIGINOSUS Desmarest, 1817. 
KANGAROO ISLAND KANGAROO. 

Kangurus fuliginosus Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., 
nouv. ed:., xvii, p. 3b,, pl. .xxi, f. 1, December 27, ex 
Péron and Lesueur. Kangaroo Island. 

South Australia (Kangaroo Island). 


[MACROPUS (MAJOR?) MELANOPS Gould, 1842. 
BLACK-FACED KANGAROO. 
Macropus melanops Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, 
p.10, June. No locality. Probably a colour phase only. 
New South Wales, Victoria, West Australia ? ] 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 55 


All the following names have been given to Captain Cook’s 
Kangaroo, cf. Australian Zoologist, iii, pp. 311-316, pl. xli, January 14, 
1925. 


MACROPUS ? CANGARU Muller, 1776. 
CAPTAIN COOK’S KANGAROO. 


1776. Mus cangaru Muller, Syst. Nat. (Linné), Suppl., p. 62. 
1777. + Jaculus giganteus Erxleben, Syst. Anim., p. 409. 
1777. Jerboa gigantea Zimmermann, Spec. Zool., p. 526. 

1777. + Didelphys gigantea Schreber, Saugthiere, iii, p. 552, pl. eliv. 
1778. Zerbua kangaru J. R. Forster, K. Vet. Ac. Handl., xxxix, 
Deeks. ; 

1780. Didelphis kenguru Zimmermann, Geogr. Gesch., ii, p. 231. 
1781. Mus caenguru Hoslin, Syst. Nat. (Linné,) i, p. 125. 


The succeeding names include later accounts ev Phillip, White, etc. 
1790. Macropus giganteus Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., i, 
text to pl. 33, June. 
1793. Didelphis giganteus Meyer, Zool. Entdeck, p. 16. 
1794. Gigantomys cangura Link, Beytr. Nat., i, 1, p. 70. 
1794. Gigantomys gigantia Link, Beytr. Nat., i, 1, p. 70. 
1799. Kanguroo gigas Lacépéde, Tabl. Mamm., p. 6. 


Subclass PLACENTALIA. 
(MONODELPHIA OR EUTHERIA.) 


Order CETACEHA. 
WHALES, PORPOISES AND DOLPHINS. 


Suborder MYSTACOCETI. 
WHALEBONE WHALES. 


Family BALASNIDAS. 
RIGHT WHALES. 


Genus BALENA Linné, 1758. 


1758. Balena Linné, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 75, January 1. Tauto- 
type, Balena mysticetus Linné. 

1849. Leiobalena Eschricht, Unters. Nord Wallthiere, i, pp. 7, 95. 
New name for Balena Linné. 

1864. Hubalena Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1864, p. 201, July 7. 
Haplotype, Balena australis Desmoulins. 

1864. Hunterus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xix, p. 349, November 
1. Haplotype, Hunterus temminckii Gray. 

1865. Macleayius Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1864, p. 588, 
May 2,1865. Haplotype, Macleayius australiensis Gray. 

1873. Macleayanus Marschall, Nomen. Zool., Mamm., p. 8. Error 
only. 

1873. Halibalena Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1873, p. 139, June. 
Haplotype, Balena britannica Gray. 


56 


1843. 


1865. 
1874. 


1864. 


1870. 


1846. 


1873. 


1804. 


1804. 

1806. 

1815. 
1815. 
1821. 
1830. 
1831. 
1835. 
1836. 


1841. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


BALENA ANTIPODUM Gray, 1843. 
RicHT WHALE OR BLACK WHALE. 

Balena antipodum Gray, Travels in New Zealand (Dieffen- 
bach), ii, p. 183, plate i (lettered antipodarum), mid- 
January. New Zealand. 

Macleayius australiensis Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1864, 
p. 588, figs. 1, 2, May 2, 1865. New Zealand. 

Balena hectori Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xili, p. 56, 
_January. Tory Channel, New Zealand. 

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania. 


Genus CAPEREA Gray, 1864. 

Caperea Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1864, p. 202, July 7. 
Haplotype, Balena antipodarum (based on earbone 
alone) =Balena marginaia Gray. 

Neobalena Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vi, p. 154, August. 
Orthotype, Balena marginata Gray. 


CAPEREA MARGINATA Gray, 1846. 
Piegmy RicgHt WHALE. 
Balena marginata Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., 
p. 48, pl. 1, fig. 1. Baleen only. Western Australia. 
Caperea nove. zealandie Hector, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) x1, 
p. 104, February 1873. Error only. 
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western 
Australia. 


Genus BALA NOPTERA Lacépéde, 1804. 

Balenoptera Lacépéde, Hist. Nat. Cetac., p. xxxvi. Logo- 
type, Balenoptera gibbar Lacépede. 

Physalus Lacépéde, Hist. Nat. Cetac., p. xl. Haplotype, 
Physalus cylindricus Lacépéde. 

Phylasus Dumeril, Zool. Analyt., p. 28 (preface September 20, 
1805). Error only for Physalus Lacépéde. 

Catoptera Rafinesque, Analyse Nat., p. 61. New name for 
Balenoptera Lacépeéde. 

Cetoptera Rafinesque, Analyse Nat., p. 219. Correction. 

Boops Gray, London Med. Repository, xv, p. 310, April 1. 
Tautotype, Balena boops Linné. Not Boops Cuvier, 
Régne Animal, Vol. II, p. 270, 1816. 

Mysticetus Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amphib., p. 33, August. 
Haplotype, Balena boops Linné. : 

Rorqual Voigt, Das Thierreich (Cuvier), i, p. 342, ea Cuvier 
Vernacular. Tautotype, Balena musculus Linné. 

Rorqualus Cuvier, Suite 4 Buffon (Roret), Cet. p. 30, December. 
Tautotype, Balena musculus Linné. 

Rorqualis Hamilton, Nat. Library (Jardine), Mamm. ix, 
p. 125, January. Tautotype, Balena musculus Linné. 

Ptychocetus Gloger, Hand-u. Hilfsb. Nat., i, p. 174. New 
name for Balenoptera Lacépéde. 


1846. 
1849. 
1849. 


1849. 


1864. 
1864. 
1866. 
1866. 
1866. 
1866. 
1867. 
1874. 


1874. 


1758. 
1846. 
1867. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 57 


Perqualus Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., pl. 32 bis ; 
error only. 

Pterobalena LEschricht, Unters. Nord Wallthiere, i, pp. 56, 
149. Type, “ Finhval’’=Balenoptera s.1. 

Ogmobalena Eschricht, Unters. Nord Wallthiere, i, p. 108. 
Type, “ Rérhvaler ’’ =Balenoptera s.1. 

Kyphobalena Eschricht, Unters. Nord Wallthiere, i, p. 108. 
Type, “ Pukkelhval ’’=Balena boops Linné. 

Also spelt Cyphobalena Marschall, Nomen. Zool. Mamm., 
p. 5, 1873. 

Benedenia Gray, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1864, pp. 196-211, 
July 7. Haplotype, Benedenia knoxti Gray. 

Sibbaldus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1864, pp. 196-222, 
July 7. Logotype, Balenoptera laticeps Gray. 

Cuvierius Gray, Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., 2nd ed., pp. 
114-164. Haplotype, Physalus latirostris Flower. 

Rudolphius Gray, Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., 2nd ed., 
p.170. Haplotype, Balenoptera laticeps Gray. 

Fabricia Gray, Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., 2nd ed., p. 382. 
Haplotype, Balenoptera acutorostrata Lacepéde. 

Swinhoia Gray, Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., 2nd ed., p. 382. 
Haplotype, Balenoptera swinhoi Gray. 

Flowerius Lilljeborg, Nov. Act. Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsala (3) vi, 
pp. 11-12. Haplotype, Flowerius gigas (Eschricht). 
Dactylena Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xiii, p. 449, June 1. 

Haplotype, Balenoptera huttoni Gray. 
Stenobalena Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xiv, p. 305, 
October 1. Orthotype, Stenobaleena xanthogaster Gray. 


BALZNOPTERA MUSCULUS Linné, 1758. 
BLUE WHALE OR SULPHURBOTTOM. 


Balena musculus Linné, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 76, January 1. 
Seas of Scotland. 

Physalus (Rorqualus) sibbaldi Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1847, p. 92, July 20. Coast of Yorkshire, England. 
Physalus latirostris Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1864, 

p. 414, May 2, 1865. Coast of Holland, Europe. 
New South Wales, South Australia, West Australia. 


BALZNOPTERA PHYSALUS Linné, 1758. 
CoMMON RORQUAL OR FINBACK, FINNER. 


Balena physalus Linné, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 75, January 1. 
European Seas. 

Balenoptera antarctica Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., 
p. 51. New Zealand. 

Physalus grayi M‘Coy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xx, p. 177, 
September 1. Ha Intercol. Exhib. 1866-7, Essays No. 7, 
p. 310 (reprints, p. 4). Victoria. 


58 MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


1874. Stenobalena xanthogaster Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xiv, 
p. 305, October 1. Port Underwood, South Island, New 
Zealand. 
Queensland, Victoria. 


BALEHNOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA Lacépéde, 1804. 
LESSER RORQUAL OR PIKED WHALE. 
1804. Balenoptera acutorostrata Lacépede, Hist. Nat. Cetac., p. 
xxxvii. European Seas. 
1874. Balenoptera huttoni Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xiii, 
p. 449, June 1. For Physalus antarcticus Hutton, Ann. 
Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xiii, p. 318, April1874. Otago Heads, 
New Zealand. 
Tasmania. 


Genus MEGAPTERA Gray, 1846. 

1846. Megaptera Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xvii, p. 83, February ; 
Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., p. 16. Haplotype, 
Balena longimana Rudolphi. 

1846.  Megapteron Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., p. 51. 
Error only. 

1864. Poéscopia Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1864, p. 207, July 7. 
Tautotype, Balena lalandia Fischer. 

1864. Hschrichtius Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xiv, p. 350, 
November 1. Haplotype, Balenoptera robusta Lilljeborg. 


MEGAPTERA AUSTRALIS Lesson, 1828. 
HUMPBACK. 

1828. Balenoptera australis Lesson, Hist. Nat. Mamm. decouv., 
1788, i, p. 372. Cape of Good Hope. 

1829. Balena lalandii Fischer, Synops. Mamm., p. 525. On same 
basis as above. Cape of Good Hope. 

1864. Megaptera nove zealandiw Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1864, p. 207, fig. 4, July 7. New Zealand. 

Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, South Australia, 

Western Australia. 


Suborder ODONTOCETI. 
TOOTHED WHALES. 


Family PHYSETERIDA. 
SPERM WHALES OR CACHALOTS. 


Genus PHYSETER Linné, 1758. 
1758. Physeter Linné, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 76, January. Logo- 
type, Physeter catodon Linné. 
1761. Catodon Linné, Fauna Suecica, ed. 2, p. 18. Haplotype, 
Catodon macrocephalus Linné. 
1806. Physeterus Dumeril, Zool. Analytique, p. 28 (preface September 
20, 1805). For Les Physetéres. 


1816. 
1822. 
1828. 


1836. 
1865. 


1822. 


1824. 
1851. 
1865. 


1846. 


1851. 
1871. 
1929. 


1838. 
1851. 


1866. 


1874. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 59 


Cetus Oken, Lehrb. Nat., iii, 2, p. 674. Not Cetus Brisson, 
Regn. Anim., p. 225, 1762. 

Tursio Fleming, Philos. Zool., ii, p. 211, May. Haplotype, 
Tursio microps Fleming. 

Megistosaurus Harlan, Amer. Journ. Sci., xiv, p. 186, July, 
ex Godman MS. Haplotype, Physeter macrocephalus 
Linné. 

Cachalot Hamilton, Nat. Library (Jardine), Mamm., ix, p. 154, 
January. Tautotype, Physeter catodon Linné. 

Meganeuron Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1865, p. 439, 
August 26. Haplotype, Catodon kreffti Gray. 


PHYSETER AUSTRALASIANUS Desmoulins, 1822. 
SPERM WHALE OR CACHALOT. 

Physeter australasianus Desmoulins, Dict. Class. d’Hist. Nat., 
ii, p. 618, December. Moluccas and New Zealand, 
based on Quoy and Gaimard, infra. 

Physeter polycyphus Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie Zool., 
Dior 2 Timon? 

Catodon australis Wall, Hist. Deser. New Sperm Whale, 
p. 1, pl. 1. Port Jackson, New South Wales. 

Catodon (Meganeuron) krefftii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond). 
1865, p. 440, figs. 1-4 in text, August 26. Australia. 

New South Wales. 


Genus KoGia Gray, 1846. 

Kogia Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., p. 22. Haplo- 
type, Physeter breviceps Blainville. Also spelt Cogia 
Wallace, Geog. Distr. Anim., ii, p. 208, 1876. 

Euphysetes Wall, Deser. Hist. New Sperm Whale (Sydney), 
p. 37. Haplotype, Huphysetes gray Wall. 

Callignathus Gill, Amer. Naturalist, iv, p. 738, February. 
Haplotype, Physeter simus Owen. 

Callignathula Strand, Arch. fiir Nat. (Berlin), 924, Hefte 8, 
p. 16. New name for Callignathus Gill. 


KOGIA BREVICEPS Blainville, 1838. 
Pigmy SPERM WHALE. 

Physeter breviceps Blainville, Ann. d’Anat. et Phys., ii, p. 337. 
Cape of Good Hope. 

Euphysetes grayii Wall, Descr. Hist. New Sperm Whale 
(Sydney), p. 37, pl. 2. Maroobrah Beach, Sydney, 
New South Wales. 

Euphysetes macleayi Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1865, 
p. 713, text-fig. 6, April 24, 1866. Manly Beach, New 
South Wales. 

Huphysetes pottst Haast, Trans. New Zeal. Inst., vi, 1873, 
p. 97, pl. xv, June 1874. Lyttelton Harbour, New 
Zealand. 

Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, South Australia. 


60 


1804. 
1811. 
1814. 
1825. 
1830. 
1830. 
18438. 
1843. 
1845. 
1862. 


1882. 


1823. 
1828. 


1841. 
1851. 
1864. 
1865. 
1866. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Family HYPEROODONTIDZE. 
BEAKED WHALES. 


Genus HYPEROODON Lacépéde, 1804. 

Hyperoodon Lacépéde, Hist. Nat. Cetac., p. xliv. Haplotype, 
Hyperoodon butskopf Lacépéde. 

Uranodon Illiger, Prodr. syst. Mamm. et Av., p. 143 (preface 
April). New name for Hyperoodon Lacépéde. 

Bidens G. Fischer, Zoognosia, 3rd ed., iii, p. 686. Haplotype, 
Deiphinus diodon Hunter. 

Cetodiodon Jacob, Dublin Philos. Journ., i, p. 72, March. 
Haplotype, Delphinus hunteri Desmarest. 

Orca Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amphib., p. 34, August. Logotype, 
Delphinus bidentatus Bonnaterre. 

Nodus Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amphib., p. 34, August. Haplo- 
type, Delphinus edentulus Schieber. 

Uperoodon Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. xxiii, 
May 13. New name for Hyperoodon Lacépéde. 

Chenodelphinus Eschricht, Forh. Skand. Nat., 1842, p. 655. 
New name for Hyperoodon Lacépéde. 

Chenocetus Eschricht, Oversk. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forh., 
p. 17. Emendation of preceding name only. 

Lagenocetus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1862, p. 200, 
October 6. Haplotype, Lagenocetus latifrons Gray. 


HYPEROODON PLANIFRONS Flower, 1882. 
BOTTLE-NOSED WHALE. 

Hyperoodon planifrons Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1882, 
p. 392, October1. Lewis Island, Dampier’s Archipelago, 
Western Australia. 

South Australia, Western Australia. 


Genus ZIPHIUS Cuvier, 1823. 

Ziphius Cuvier, Oss. Fossil., 2nd ed., v, 1, p. 352. Haplotype, 
Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier. 

Diodon Lesson, Hist. Nat. Mamm. decouv., 1788, i, p. 124. 
Haplotype, Delphinus desmaresti Risso. Not Diodon 
Linné, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 334, 1758. 

Hypodon Haldeman, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., i, p. 127, 
November. New name for Diodon Lesson. 

Ziphices Duvernoy, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris), Zool. (3) xv, p. 42. 
Error only. 

Aliama Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1864, p. 242, July 7. 
Haplotype, Delphinus desmaresti Risso. 

Petrorhynchus Gray, Proce. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1865, p. 524, 
August 26. Haplotype, Hyperoodon capensis Gray. 
Ziphiorrhynchus Burmeister, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xvii, 
p. 94, February 1. Haplotype, Ziphiorrhynchus erypt- 

odon Burmeister. 


1873. 


1876. 


1850. 
1871. 


1817. 


1846. 


1850. 
1828. 


1851. 
1866. 
1871. 


1876. 


1865. 
1871. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 61 


ZIPHIUS CHATHAMIENSIS Hector, 1873. 
HECTOR’S BEAKED WHALE. 

Epiodon chathamiensis Hector, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xi, 
p. 105, February 1; Trans. New Zeal. Inst., v, 1872, 
p. 165, pls. iv and v, May 1873. Chatham Islands, 
New Zealand. 

Ziphius novezealandie Haast, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1876, 
p. 466, pls. xlv, xlvi, October 1; Trans. New Zeal. Inst., 
ix, 1876, p. 430, pl. xxiv, figs. A-C, pl. xxv, fig. 2, pl. 
xxvi, figs., May 1877. Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand. 

Queensland, Tasmania. 


Genus DIOPLODON Gervais, 1850. 
Dioplodon Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris), Zool. (3) xiv, p. 16. 
Haplotype, Delphinus densirostris Desmarest. 
Neoziphius Gray, Suppl. Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., p. 101. 
Haplotype, Dioplodon europeus Gervais. 


DIOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS Desmarest, 1817. 
DESMAREST’S BEAKED WHALE. 
Delphinus densirostris Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., 
nouv. ed., ix, p. 178, ev Blainville MS. Fossil fragment. 
Ziphius sechellensis Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., 
p. 28, pl. 6, figs. 1, 2. Seychelles. 
Queensland, (Lord Howe Island). 


Genus MESOPLODON Gervais, 1850. 
Mesoplodon Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) Zool. (3) xiv, 
p.16, July. Haplotype, Delphinus sowerbensis Desmarest. 
Aodon Lesson, Hist. Nat. Mamm. decouv., 1788, i, p. 149, 
pl. 3. Haplotype, Aodon dalei Lesson. Also spelt 
Anodon Agassiz, Nomen. Zool., Index, p. 78, 1848. 
Not Aodon Anon., 1798, ex Lacépede 1798 vernacular 
(Sherborn). 
Mesodiodon Duvernoy, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) Zool. (3) xv, 
p. 41. Haplotype, Delphinus sowerbyi Desmarest. 
Dolichodon Gray, Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., 2nd ed., 
p. 353. Haplotype, Ziphius layardw Gray. 

Callidon Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vii, p. 368, May 1. 
Haplotype, Mesoplodon gunthert Krefft. 

Oulodon Haast, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1876, p. 457, October 
1. Haplotype, Mesoplodon grayi Haast. 


MESOPLODON LAYARDII Gray, 1865. 
LAYARD’S BEAKED WHALE. 
Ziphius layardit Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1865, p. 358, 
fig. in text, August 26. Cape of Good Hope (Layard). 
Mesoplodon guntheri Krefft, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vii, 
p. 368, text-figs. 1 and 2, May 1. Little Bay, near 
Sydney, New South Wales. 


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1873. 


[1873. 
1876. 


1878. 


1876. 


1878. 


1878. 


1926. 


1804. 
1815. 
1828. 
1830. 
1841. 


1873. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Dolichodon traversti Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xi, p. 111, 
February 1. New name for Mesoplodon layardi Hector, 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xi, p. 106, February 1. Chatham 
Islands (H. H. Travers). 

Mesoplodon longirostris Gray, Proce. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1873, 
p. 145, June, ex Krefft MS. Skeleton in Austr. Mus. ] 

Mesoplodon floweri Haast, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1876, 
(p. 8, n.”., June 1), p. 478, pls. xlv, xlvi, October 1 ; 
Trans. New Zeal. Inst., ix, 1876, p. 442, pls. xxv, f. 2, 
xxvi, f. 2, May 1877. Saltwater Creek, Canterbury, New 
Zealand. 

Mesoplodon thomsoni Flower, Trans. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) x, 
p. 416, ew Krefft MS. As synonym of layardii, ex Little 
Bay, supra. 

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania. 


MESOPLODON GRAYI Haast, 1876. 
HAAst’s BEAKED WHALE. 

Mesoplodon grayi Haast, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1876, p. 7, 
June 1. Chatham Islands. 

Mesoplodon haasti Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, 
p. 684, April 1, 1878; Trans. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) x, 
p. 417, footnote, pls. 71-73, August 1. North Island, 
New Zealand. 

Mesoplodon australis Flower, Trans. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) x, 
p. 417, footnote, pls. 71-73, August 1. Lyall Bay, New 
Zealand. 

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria. 


MESOPLODON PACIFICUS Longman, 1926. 
LONGMAN’S BEAKED WHALE. 

Mesoplodon pacificus Longman, Mem. Queensland Mus., 8, 
p. 269, pl. xliii, March 31. Mackay, Queensland (EK. W. 
Rawson). ‘ 

Queensland. 


[Family DELPHINAPTERIDAD. 
WHITE WHALES. 
Genus DELPHINAPTERUS Lacépéde, 1804. 
Delphinapterus Lacépéde, Hist. Nat. Cetac., p. xli. Logo- 
type, D. beluga=Delphinus leucas Pallas. 
Beluga Rafinesque, Analyse Nat., p. 60. New name for 
Delphinapterus Lacépéede. 
Beluga Gray, Spicil. Zoologica, pt. 1, p. 2, July 1. Haplotype, 
Delphinus leucas Pallas. 


_Delphis Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amphib., p. 34, August. Haplo- 


type, Delphinus leucas Pallas. 

Argocetus Gloger, Hand-u. Hilfsb. Nat., i, p. 169, ante May. 
New name for Delphinapterus Lacépéde. 

Leucas Brandt, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Peterb. (7) xx, p. 234. 
Tautotype, Delphinus leueas Pallas. 


1827. 
1807. 


1828. 


1846. 


1860. 
1868. 
1870. 


1758. 
1875. 
1880. 
1880. 


1862. 
1871. 


1846. 


1865. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON,. 63 


DELPHINAPTERUS KINGIL Gray, 1827. 
BELUGA OR WHITE WHALE. 
Delphinus (Delphinapterus) kingii Gray, Phil. Mag. (n.s.), 
ii, p. 375, November. Coasts of Australia. 
Delphinus leucas Linn., Péron, Voy. Terres. Austr., i, p. 217. 
South of Tasmania. 
Australian Seas. | 


Family PHOCOINID AS. 
PORPOISES AND KILLERS. 


Genus GRAMPUS Gray, 1828. 

Grampus Gray, Spicil. Zoologica, pt. i, p. 2, July 1. Tauto- 
type, Delphinus grampus “ Linn.” =Hunter. 

Orca Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xvii, p. 84, February ; 
Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., p. 33. Tauto- 
type, Delphinus orca Linné. Not Orca Wagler, Nat. Syst. 
Amphib., p. 34, 1830. 

Orcinus Fitzinger, Wiss.-Pop. Naturg. Saugeth., vii, pp. 
204, 217. New name for Orca Gray, not Wagler. 

Ophysia Gray, Synops. Whales Dolphins Brit. Mus., p. 8. 
Haplotype, Orca capensis Gray. 

Gladiator Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1870, p. 71, June 2 
Haplotype, Orca stenorhyncha Gray. 


GRAMPUS ORCA Linné, 1758. 
GRAMPUS OR KILLER. 
Delphinus orca Linné, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 77, January 1. 
European Seas. 
Orca pacifica Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1870, p. 76, June 2. 
North Pacific. 
Orca tasmanica Beneden and Gervais, Osteog. Cetac., p. 537, 
footnote. New name for 
Orca gladiator (australis), ibid., pl. xlvii, fig. 1. Tasmania. 
New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia. 


Genus PSEUDORCA Reinhardt, 1862. 
Pseudorca Reinhardt, Overs. Danske Videns. Selsk. Forh. 
(Kjob.), p. 151. Haplotype, Phocewna crassidens Owen. 
Neoorca Gray, Suppl. Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., p. 80. 
Haplotype, Orea meridionalis Flower. 


PSEUDORGA CRASSIDENS Owen, 1846. 
FALSE KILLER OR TASMANIAN BLACKFISH. 

Phocena ecrassidens Owen, Brit. Foss. Mamm., p. 516; Gray, 
Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., pe 34, 1846. (Orea). 
Fossil, Lincoln, England. 

Orca meridionalis Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. Monks 1864, p. 420, 
ff. 1-2, May 2, 1865. Tasmania. 

Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania. 


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1836. 


1836. 


1884. 


[1864. 


1804. 


1809. 
1812. 


1846. 
1866. 


1933. 


1846. 


1873. 


1933. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Genus GLOBICEPHALUS Hamilton, 1836. 


Globicephalus Hamilton, Nat. Library (Jardine) Whales, 
Os Pale, dh anuary (ew Globicephale Lesson, vernacular 
only). ’ Not in Sherborn. Tautotype, Delphinus globi- 
ceps Cuvier. 

Globiceps Hamilton, Nat. Library (Jardine) Whales, p. 203, 
January. Ha Cuvier. ? Error only. Not in Sherborn. 
Not Globiceps Lepel. et Servier, Ency. Meth. (Ins.), x, 1 
p. 326, 1825. 

Globiceps Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1883, pp. 471-508. 
New name for Globicephalus Lesson. 

Spherocephalus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1864, p. 244, 
July 7. Haplotype, Globicephalus incrassatus Gray.] 


>) 


GLOBICEPHALUS VENTRICOSUS Lacépéde, 1804. 
Pinot WHALE OR BLACKFISH. 


Delphinus ventricosus Lacépéde, Hist. Nat. Cetac., p. xliii, 
based on Small Grampus, Hunter, Phil. Trans. (Lond.) 
77, pl. 5, fig. 2, 1787. River Thames, England. 

Delphinus melas Traill, Journ. Nat. Phil., xxii, p. 81, February. 
Northern Seas. : 

Delphinus globiceps Cuvier, Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. (Paris) 
xix, p. 14, pl. i, August. Sainte Brieux, France. (Not 
in Sherborn.) 

Globiocephalus affinis Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., 
p. 32, for small Grampus Hunter, as above. 

Grampus affinis Gray, Cat. Seals and Whales Brit. Mus., 2nd 
ed., p. 300. On same specimen. 

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania. 


Genus GRAMPIDELPHIS Iredale and Troughton, 1933. 


Grampidelphis Iredale and Troughton, Rec. Austr. Mus., 
xix, p. 31, August 2. Haplotype, Grampidelphis exilis 
Iredale and Troughton. 

Grampus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xvii, p. 85, February ; 
Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., p. 30. Not Grampus 
Gray, 1828, ante. 

Grayius Scott, Mammalia, Recent and Extinct, p. 104. New 
name for Grampus Gray, and later, not of Gray, 1828. 
Preoccupied by Bonaparte, 1856, Gunther, 1858, Bate, 
1862. 


GRAMPIDELPHIS EXILIS Iredale and Troughton, 1933. 
GRAMPUS-DOLPHIN. 


Grampidelphis exilis Iredale and Troughton, Rec. Austr. Mus., 
xix, p. 32, pl. x, figs. 1-5, August 2. Manly, New 
South Wales. 

New South Wales, Western Australia, (South Australia). 


1758. 


1864. 


1880. 


1758. 


1830. 


1846. 


1846. 


1854. 


1880. 


1846. 


1866. 


1864. 


1866. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 65 


Family DELPHINIDA. 
DOLPHINS. 
Genus DELPHINUS Linné, 1758. 

Delphinus Linné, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 77, January. Tauto- 
type, Delphinus delphis Linné. 

Delphis Gray, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1864, p. 236, July 7. 
Tautotype, Delphinus delphis Linné. Not Delphis Wagler, 
Nat. Syst. Amphib., p. 34, 1830. 

ELudelphinus Beneden and Gervais, Ost. Cetac., viv. et foss., 
p. 600. New name for Delphis Gray, 1866. 


DELPHINUS DELPHIS Linné. 
CoMMON DOLPHIN. 

Delphinus delphis Linné, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 77, January. 
European Seas. 

Delphinus novezealandie Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de l’Astrol., 
Zool., i, p. 149, pl. 28. Cape Gable, East Coast of New 
Zealand. 

Delphinus forsteri Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., 
p. 42, pl. 24. Between New Caledonia and Norfolk 
Island (Forster). 

Delphinus fulvifasciatus Wagner, Siugthier. (Schreber), vii, 
pl. 361, for succeeding. 

Delphinus fulvifasciatus Jacquinot and Pucheran, Voy. 
Pole Sud. Zool., iii, p. 37, exc Hombron and Jacquinot, 
Atlas, pl. xxi, f. 1. No locality Hobart, Tasmania. 

Eudelphinus tasmaniensis Beneden and Gervais, Ost. Cetac., 
viv. et foss., p. 604, pl. xxxix, fig. 9. Tasmania (Jules 
Verreaux). 

New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania. 


Genus FRETIDELPHIS NOY. 
Type, Delphinus rosewentris Wagner. 
FRETIDELPHIS ROSEIVENTRIS Wagner, 1846. 
TORRES STRAIT DOLPHIN. 

Delphinus roseiwentris Wagner, Saugthier. (Schreber), vii, 
pl. 360, for Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. Pole Sud. 
Atlas, pl. xxii, fig. 2, pl. xxiii, figs. 3, 4. Moluccas and 
Torres Strait. 

Torres Strait. 


Genus STENELLA Gray, 1866. 

Stenella Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1866, p. 213, September 
5. Haplotype, Steno attenuatus Gray. 

Clymene Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1864, p. 237, July 7. 
Haplotype, Delphinus euphrosyne Gray. Not Clymene 
Oken, Gott. gelehrte Anz., p. 1168, 1807. 

Euphrosyne Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1866, p. 214, 
September 5. Tautotype, Delphinus euphrosyne Gray. 
Not Huphrosyne Savigny, Egypte, i, (3), Ann., p. 63, 
1822. 


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1868. 


1868. 
1880. 


1828. 


1846. 
1924. 


1826. 


1806. 


1841. 


1826. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Clymenia Gray, Synops. Whales Dolphins Brit. Mus., p. 6. 
New name for Clymene Gray, supra. Not Clymenia 
Bronn, N. Jahrb. fiir Min., 1835, p. 334. 

Micropia Gray, Synops. Whales Dolphins Brit. Mus., p. 6. 
Haplotype, Delphinus stenorhynchus Gray. 

Prodelphinus Beneden and Gervais, Osteog. Cétacés, p. 604. 
New name for Clymenia Gray. 


STENELLA LONGIROSTRIS Gray, 1828. 
LONG-BEAKED DOLPHIN. 
Delphinus longirostris Gray, Spicil. Zool., pt. i, p. 1, July 1. 
No locality. 
Australia (Copenhagen Museum, jide True, Bull. U.S. Nat. 
Mus., No. 36, p. 167, 1889). 


STENELLA ATTENUATA Gray, 1846. 
SLENDER-BEAKED DOLPHIN. 

Steno attenuatus Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., 
p. 44. No locality. 

Prodelphinus attenuatus Lord and Scott, Synops. Vert. Anim. 
Tasm., p. 292. (May=pseudodelphis, capensis and 
punctata.) Tasmania. 

Tasmania. 


[DELPHINUS SUPERCILIOSUS Lesson, 1826. 
WHITE-BROWED DOLPHIN. 

Delphinus superciliosus Lesson, Bull. Sci. Nat. (Ferussac), 
WA, 1D, BG, wore 

Delphinus superciliosus Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., i, p. 181, 
October 17, 1827, pl. 9, fig. 2; Nov. 1, 1826, coll. by 
Garnot on “‘ Castle-Forbes”’ outside Sydney, New South 
Wales. 

New South Wales. | 


[DELPHINUS BORYI Desmarest, 1822. 
Bory’s DOLPHIN. 
Delphinus boryi Desmarest, Ency. Meth. Mamm., 2, p. 513. 
Between Madagascar and Isle Reunion, Indian Ocean. 
Delphinus boryi Desmoulins, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat., v, p. 
356=556, April, pl. clxi, fig. 1. Shark’s Bay, Western 
Australia (Mylius). 
Western Australia. | 


Genus LISSODELPHIS Gloger, 1841. 
Lissodelphis Gloger, Hand-u. Hilfsb. Nat., i, p. 169. Haplo- 
type, Delphinus peronii Lacépéde. 
Delphinapterus Lesson, Bull. Sci. Nat. (Ferussac), vii, p. 374. 
Haplotype, Delphinus peronii Laceptde. Not Del- 
phinapterus Lacépede, 1804, ante. 


1830. 


1861. 


1804. 


1807. 


1846. 


1846. 


1866. 
1866. 


1828. 
1838. 


1847. 


1849. 
1889. 
1924. 


1866. 
1868. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 67 


Tursio Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amphib., p. 30, August. Haplo- 
type, Delphinus peronii Lacépede. Not Tursio Fleming, 
Phil. Zool., ii, p. 211, May 1822. 

Leucorhamphus Lilljeborg, Upsala Univers. Arsskrift, Math., 
Nat., 4, 5. New name for Delphinapterus Lesson. 


LISSODELPHIS PERONIIT Lacépéde, 1804. 
PrRon’s DOLPHIN. 

Delphinus peronti Lacépéde, Hist. Nat. Cetac., p. xliii. Based 
on specimen killed Jan. 14, 1802, in lat. 44° S. and long. 
141° E., by Péron. 

Delphinus leucoramphus Péron, Voy. Terres. Austr., i, p. 217. 
New name for preceding. 

Delphinus bicolor Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., 
p. 36, pl. 15, figs. 1-3, in synonymy, ex Stephenson MS. 
Southern Australian Seas. 


Genus LAGENORHYNCHUS Gray, 1846. 
Lagenorhynchus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xvii, p. 84, 
February ; Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., p. 34. 
Haplotype, Lagenorhynchus albirostris Gray. 
Leucopleurus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1866, p. 216, 
September 5. Tautotype, Delphinus leucopleurus Rasch. 
Electra Gray, Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., 2nd ed., p. 268. 
Tautotype, Lagenorhynchus electra Gray. Not Electra 
Lamouroux 1816, nor Stephens 1829. 


LAGENORHYNCHUS OBSCURUS Gray, 1828. 
OBSCURE DOLPHIN. 

Delphinus (Grampus) obseurus Gray, Spicil. Zool., pt. i, p. 2, 
July 1. Cape of Good Hope. 

Delphinus fitzroyi Waterhouse, Zool. Beagle, Mamm., p. 25, 
pl. i. Coast of Patagonia. 

Delphinus cruciger D’Orbigny and Gervais, Voy. l’Amer. 
merid., iv, 2, p. 32; ix, pl. xxi, f. 1-4. South America. 
Not Delphinus cruciger Quoy and Gaimard, Zool. Voy. 
Uranie, p. 87, pl. xii, figs. 3-4, 1824. South Pacific 
Ocean. 

Lagenorhynchus clanculus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1849, p. 2, December 11. Pacific. 

Lagenorhynchus latifrons True, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 36, 
p. 90, March. New Zealand. 

Lagenorhynchus fitzroyt Lord and Scott, Synops. Vert. Anim. 
Tasm., p. 290. Tasmania. 

Tasmania. 


[Genus SouSA Gray, 1866. 
Sousa Gray, Proce. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1866, p. 213, September 5. 
Logotype, Steno lentiginosus Gray. 
Gudamu Gray, Synops. Whales Dolphins Brit. Mus., p. 6. 
Haplotype, Steno ? gadamu Gray. 


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1866. 


1866. 


1855. 


1843. 


1862. 


1874. 


1920. 


ISH). 
1803. 
1808. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


SouSA LENTIGINOSA Gray, 1866. 
SpoTTeED DOLPHIN. 
Steno lentiginosus Gray, Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., 2nd., 
p. 394, ex Owen MS. Vizagapatam, India. 
? Queensland. 


Sousa GADAMU Gray, 1866. 
GADAMU DOLPHIN. 
Steno ? gadamu Gray, Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., 2nd ed., 
p. 394, er Owen MS. Vizagapatam, India. 
Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia. | 


Genus TURSIOPS Gervais, 1855. ° 
Tursiops Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm., ii, p. 323. New name 
for 
Tursio Gray, List. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xxiii, 105, 
May 13. Haplotype, Delphinus truncatus Montagu. 
Not Tursio Wagler, 1830, nor Tursio Fleming, Phil. 
Zool, i, p. 2a 1822; 


TURSIOPS CATALANIA Gray, 1862. 
MACGILLIVRAY’S BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN. 

Delphinus catalania Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1862, 
p. 148, September 15. Capes Melville and Flattery, 
Queensland (Macgillivray). 

Delphinus cerulescens Giglioli, Exped. Magenta, Cetac., p. 88. 
Australian Seas. 

Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania. 


TURSIOPS MAUGEANUS nom. nov. 
TASMANIAN BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN. 

Tursiops tursio (southern form) Scott and Lord, Papers Proc. 
Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1919, pp. 96, et seq., pls. xxili-xxv, 
March 6. Tamar River, Tasmania. Not Delphinus 
truncatus Montagu, Mem. Wern. Soe. (Edinb.), iii, p. 75. 
England=Tursiops tursio auctorum. 

Tasmania. 


Order SIRENIA. 
DUGONGS AND MANATEES. 


Family DUGONGID. 
DuGONGS OR SEA COWS. 


Genus Ducone Lacépéde, 1799. 
Dugong Lacépéde, Tabl. Mamm., p. 17. Haplotype, D. 
indicus =Trichechus dugong Linné. 
Platystomus G. Fischer, Nat. Mus. Naturg. Paris, ii, p. 353, 
preface April. Haplotype, Trichechus dugong Linné. 
Dugungus Tiedemann, Zool., i, p. 554. Haplotype, Trichechus 
dugong Linné. 


1811. 
1814. 
1815. 


1821. 


1847. 


1804. 


1804. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 69 


Halicore Mliger, Prodr. syst. Mamm. et Av., p. 141, preface 
April. New name for Dugong Lacépede. 

Amblychilus G. Fischer, Zoognosia, 3rd ed., iii, pp. xxi, 638. 
New name for Platystomus Fischer. 

Odobenus Rafinesque, Analyse Nat., p. 60 (preface April). 
New name for Dugong Lacépéde. 

Dugongidus Gray, London Med. Repos., xv, p. 309, April 1. 
New name only. 


DUGONG AUSTRALIS Owen, 1847. 
DuGoNG oR SEA Cow. 


Halicore australis Owen, Narr. Voy. “ Fly ” (Jukes), ii, p. 323, 
July. Endeavour Strait, North Australia. 
Northern Australia. 


Order RODENTIA. 
Suborder SIMPLICIDENTATA. 


Family MURIDA. 
RATS AND MICE. 


Subfamily HY DROMYIN At. 
AUSTRALIAN WATER RATS. 


Genus HyDROMYS Geoffroy, 1804. 
Hydromys Geoffroy, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. (Paris), No. 93, 
p. 254, fide Sherborn; Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 
vi, p. 90, March 1805. Haplotype, Hydromys chryso- 
gaster Geoffroy. 


HYDROMYS CHRYSOGASTER Geoffroy, 1804. 
WATER RAT. 


Hydromys chrysogaster chrysogaster Geoffroy, 1804. 

Hydromys chrysogaster Geoffroy, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. 
(Paris), No. 93, p. 254, fide Sherborn; Ann. Mus. Hist. 
Nat. Paris, vi, p. 90, March 1805. Bruni Island, 
D’Entrecasteaux Canal, Tasmania (Levillain). 

Hydromys leucogaster Geoffroy, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. (Paris), 
No. 93, p. 254, fide Sherborn; Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 
Paris, vi, p. 90, March 1805. Ile Maria, Tasmania 
(Péron and Lesueur). 

Hydromys fulvogaster Jourdan, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. 
Paris, v, p. 523, October, Swan River, error Tasmania. 

(Hydromis) fulvoventer Cuvier, Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris (2) viii, 
p. 372, December, ex Jourdan MS. Swan River, error = 
Tasmania. 

Tasmania. 


(d) 
1909. 


1923. 


1853. 


1889. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Hydromys chrysogaster fulvolavatus Gould, 1853. 

Hydromys fulvolavatus Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. v (Vol. iii, 
pl. 25). River Murray, South Australia (EK. J. Eyre). 

South Australia. 


Hydromys chrysogaster lutrilla Gould, 1863. 

Hydromys lutrilla Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. xiii (Introd. 
Vol. iii), May 1, ee Macleay MS. Sydney, New South 
Wales. 

New South Wales. 


Hydromys chrysogaster regine Thomas and Dollman, 1909. 

Hydromys chrysogaster regine Thomas and Dollman, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (lond.) 1908, p. 789, April. Inkerman, 
Queensland (W. Stalker). 

Queensland. 


HYDROMYS LONGMANI Thomas, 1923. 
LONGMAN’S WATER RAT. 

Hydromys longmani Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xi, 
p- 171, June 1. Ravenshoe, North Queensland (T. 
Sherrin). 

North Queensland. 


HYDROMYS MELICERTES Thomas, 1921. 
MELVILLE ISLAND WATER. RAT. 
Hydromys melicertes Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) viii, 
p. 430, October 1. Melville Island, North Australia 
(J. PB. Rogers). 
North Australia (Melville Island). 


HyYDROMYS CAURINUS Thomas, 1909. 
NortH-WESTERN WATER. RAT. 

Hydromys chrysogaster caurinus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (8) iv, p.197, September. Parry’s Creek, Wyndham, 
North-West Australia (J. P. Rogers). 

North Western Australia. 


HyYDROMYS FULIGINOSUS Gould, 1853. 
SouTH-WESTERN WATER RaAt.. 

Hydromys fuliginosus Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. v (Vol. iii, 
pl. 27). West Australia (Gilbert) = King George’s 
Sound (Thomas). 

South Western Australia. 


Genus XEROMYS Thomas, 1889. 


Xeromys Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1889, p. 248, 
October 1. Orthotype, Xeromys myoides Thomas. 


1889. 


1803. 


(a) 


1858. 


(b) 
1923. 


1841. 


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XEROMYS MYOIDES Thomas, 1889. 
MURINE WATER RAT. 


Xeromys myoides Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1889, 
p. 248, pl. xxix, October 1. Port Mackay, Queensland. 
Queensland. 


Subfamily MURIN A. 
TRUE RATS AND MICE. 


Genus RatTTus Fischer, 1803. 


Rattus Fischer, Nat. Mus. Naturg. Paris, ii, p. 128 (preface 
April). Tautotype, Mus rattus Linné. (Extralimital 
generic synonymy not collated.) 


RATTUS ASSIMILIS Gould, 1858. 
ALLIED RAT. 


Rattus assimilis assimilis Gould, 1858. 

Mus assimilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1857, p. 241, 
January 12, 1858. Clarence River, New South Wales 
(Strange). 

Southern Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria ?. 


Rattus assimilis coracius Thomas, 1923. 

Rattus assimilis coracius Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) xi, p. 173, January 1. Ravenshoe, North Queensland ni 
(T. Sherrin). 

North Queensland. 


RATTUS FUSCIPES Waterhouse, 1839. 
DUSKY-FOOTED OR WESTERN Swamp Rat. 


Rattus fuscipes fuscipes Waterhouse, 1839. 

Mus fuscipes Waterhouse, Zool. Voy. “‘ Beagle,” Mamm., 
p. 66, pl. xxv. King George’s Sound, South-West 
Australia. 

South Western Australia. 


Rattus fuscipes glawerti Thomas, 1926. 

Rattus glauerti Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xviii, 
p. 308, September 1. East Wallaby Island, Houtman’s 
Abrolhos, West Australia (C. P. Conigrave). 

Western Australia (Houtman’s Abrolhos). 


RATTUS LUTREOLUS Gray, 1841. 
EASTERN SWAMP RAT. 


Mus lutreola Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Australia (Grey), ii, 
App., pp. 409, 401, November. South Australia, etc.= 
River Torrens, South Australia. (Thomas cites Hunter 
River, New South Wales.) 

South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania. 


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(a) 


1841. 


(b) 
1923. 


1858. 


1904. 


1923. 


1858. 


1847. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


RATTUS GREYIL Gray, 1841. 
GREY’S RAT. 

Rattus greyii greyii Gray, 1841. 

Mus greyit Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Australia (Grey), il, 
App., pp. 410, 404, November. (Adelaide), South 
Australia. 

South Australia and Kangaroo Island. 


Ratius greyti murrayz Thomas, 1923. 

Ratius murrayt Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xi, p. 601, 
May 1. Pearson’s Island, Investigator Group, South 
Australia (Wood Jones). 

South Australia (Pearson Island, Investigator Group). 


RATTUS SORDIDUS Gould, 1858. 
SorDID RAT. : 

Mus sordidus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1857, p. 242, 
January 12, 1858; Mamm. Austr., pt. x, 1858. Darling 
Downs, South Queensland. 

South Queensland. 


RATTUS COLLETTI Thomas, 1904. 
COLLETT’S RAT. 
Rattus colletti Thomas, Nov. Zool., xi, p. 599, ae ib 
South Alligator River, Northern Territory (J. T. Tunney). 
North Australia. 


Ratrus conatus Thomas, 1923. 
ANNAM RIVER Rat. 
Rattus conatus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xii, p. 159, 
July 1. Annan (sic) River, Cooktown, North Queensland 
(ae Sherrin). 
North Queensland. 


RATTUS MANICATUS Gould, 1858. 
WHITE-FOOTED RAT. 

Mus manicatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1857, p. 242, 
January 12 1858 ; Mamm. Austr., pt. x, 1 58. Port 
Essington, North ‘Australia. 

North Australia. 


RATTUS VELLEROSUS Gray, 1847. 
TAwNY RAT. 

Mus vellerosus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1847, p. 5, 
March 29. Plains between Rivers Murray and Glenelg, 
South Australia (Capt. G. Grey). 

South Australia. 


(a) 


1897. 
1854. 


(b) 


1921. 


IVA 


1921. 


1904. 


1908. 


1882, 


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RATTUS VILLOSISSIMUS Waite, 1897. 
LONG-HAIRED Rat. 

Rattus villosissimus villosissimus Waite, 1897. 

Mus villosissimus Waite, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., x (n.s.), p. 125, 
July. New name for 

Mus longipilis Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. vi (Vol. iii, pl. 13). 
Victoria River (T. Wall) =Barcoo River, Central Australia. 
Not Mus longipilis Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
USGS 10s tes 

South Queensland. 


Rattus villosissimus profusus Thomas, 1921. 

Rattus villosissimus profusus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) viii, p. 620, December. Liverpool Plains, New 
South Wales. 

New South Wales. 


RATTUS MELVILLEUS Thomas, 1921. 
MELVILLE ISLAND RAT. 

Rattus melvilleus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) viii, 
p. 427, October. Melville Island, North Australia 
(J. P. Rogers). 

North Australia (Melville Island). 


RATTUS MONDRAINEUS Thomas, 1921. 
MONDRAIN ISLAND RAT. 
Rattus mondraineus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) vii, 
p. 428, October. Mondrain Island, South-West Australia 
(J. LT. Tunney). 
South Western Australia (Mondrain Island). 


RATTUS TUNNEYI Thomas, 1904. 
TUNNEY’S RAT. 
Mus tunneyi Thomas, Nov. Zool., xi, p. 223, March 25 
Mary River, Northern Territory (J. T. Tunney). 
North Australia. 


RATTUS WOODWARDI Thomas, 1908. 
WooDWARD’S Rat. 

Mus woodwardi Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ii, p. 374; 
October 1. Lagrange Bay, North-West Australia (J. T. 
Tunney). 

North Western Australia. 


RATTUS VELUTINUS Thomas, 1882. 
VELVET-FURRED RAT. 
Mus velutinus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) ix, p. 415, 
June 1. Tasmania (A. Simson), 


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1884. 


(a) 
1909. 


(b) 
1926. 


(c) 
1921. 


(d) 
1921. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Mus castaneus Higgins and Petterd, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. 
Tasm., 1883, p. 183, pl., figs. 2a-b, ante June 25. Long 
Plains, Tasmania (T. B. Moore). 

Tasmania. 


RATTUS CULMORUM Thomas and Dollman, 1909. 
SPINY-HAIRED RAT. 
Rattus culmorum eulmorum Thomas and Dollman, 1909. 
Mus culmorum Thomas and Dollman, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1908, p. 790, April 1909. Beach Mountain, Inkerman 
Queensland (Stalker). 
Queensland. 


Rattus culmorum youngi Thomas, 1926. 

Ratius youngi Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xviui, p. 309, 
September 1. Moreton Island, South Queensland (J. EH. 
Young). 

South Queensland (Moreton Island). 


Rattus culmorum vallesius Thomas, 1921. 

Rattus eulmorum vallesius Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) viii, p. 426, October. Duck Creek, Macquarie River, 
Upper Darling, New South Wales (‘T. Mitchell). 

New South Wales (interior). 


Rattus culmorum austrinus Thomas, 1921. 

Rattus culmorum austrinus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) viii, p. 427, October. South Australia (J. B. 
Harvey)=Port Lincoln. 

South Australia. 


RATTUS LEUCOPUS Gould, 1867. 
Cape YorK Spiny Rat. 

Acanthomys leucopus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1867, 
p. 598, October 22. Cape York, Queensland (Damen = 
Diamel). 

Mus terreregine Alston, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1879, 
p. 646, October. New name for above. 

North Queensland (Cape York). 


RATTUS RATTUS Linné. 


This species has been re-described many times from Australian 
specimens as :— 


1863. 


1867. 
1882. 


Hapailotis arboricola Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. xiii (Introd. 
Vol. iii), p. xxxv, May 1, ev Macleay MS. Sydney, New 
South Wales. 

Hapalotis personata Krefft, Proce. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1867, 
p. 318, October 22. Cape York, North Queensland. 
Mus (Hapalotis ?) tompsoni Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
vi, p. 763, text-figs. 1-3, March 20. Wagga, New South 

Wales (F. A. Tompson). 


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1883. Mus griseoceruleus Higgins and Petterd, Papers Proc. Roy. 
Soc. Tasm., 1882, p. 173, pl, figs. 2, 2a. Kentishbury, 
Tasmania. 

1883. Mus variabilis Higgins and Petterd, Papers Proc. Roy. Soe. 
Tasm., 1882, p. 174, pl., figs. 3, 3a. St. Leonard’s, 
Tasmania (Swan), 

1884. Mus tamarensis Higgins and Petterd, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. 
Tasm., 1883, p. 185, ante June 25. Streams of northern 
Tasmania. 

1916. Epimys chionogaster Lonnberg, Kungl. Sv. Vetensk. Acad. 
Handl., 52, 2, p. 6, January 18. Tolga, near Cairns, 
North Queensland. 


The following names have not yet been accurately located : 

1841. Mus adelaidensis Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Australia (Grey), 
ii, App., pp. 410, 404, November. Adelaide, South 
Australia. —=Mus musculus Linné, fide Gray, 1843. 

1883. Mus simsoni Higgins and Petterd, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. 
Tasm., 1882, p. 175, pl., figs. 5, 5a. Ringarooma, 
Tasmania (A. Simson). Said to be Mus musculus Linné. 

1838. Mus platurus Mitchell, Three Exped. East Austr., i, p. xvii, 
preface dated August 18, nom. nud. River Darling, 
New South Wales. 

1838. Mus hovellit Mitchell, Three Exped. East Austr., i, p. xvii, 
preface dated August 18, nom. nud. Near the Bayunga 
River, New South Wales. 

1843. Mus australasicus Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 112, 
May 13, nom. nud. South Australia. 

1866. Mus subrufus Krefft, Trans. Philos. Soc. New South Wales, 
1862-65, p. 5 (issued separately, 1865). Between Gol Gol 
Creek and Darling River, New South Wales. 

1868. Mus tasmaniensis Krefft, Notes Fauna Tasmania, p. 33, 
nom. nud. ; Repr. in Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1868, 
App., pp. 91-105, nom. nud. Banks of Ouse River, 
Tasmania (G. Masters). 

1884. Mus pachyurus Higgins and Petterd, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. 
Tasm., 1883, p. 182, pl., figs. la-b. Long Plains, Tas- 
mania (T. B. Moore). 

1887. Mus burtoni Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) ii, p. 533, 
pl. xvii. Derby, North-West Australia (Burton, with 
Bowyer-Bower). 

1904. Mus petterdi Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. viv. et foss., Suppl., 
fase. ii, p. 373. New name for 

1884. Mus tetragonurus Higgins and Petterd, Papers Proc. Roy. 
Soc. Tasm., 1883, p. 195, pl., ante June 25. Springfield, 
Tasmania (B. Dyer), and Mt. Cameron, Tasmania 
(R. Bell). Not Mus tetragonurus Kelaart, 1850. 

Quid 

1828. Myoxoides australasie Brookes, Cat. Anat. Mus. Brookes, 
p. 52, ante July 14. Australia. Fide Palmer. 


1845. 


1845. 


(b) 
1921. 


1899. 
1883. 


1910. 


1932. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Genus PSEUDOMYS Gray, 1832. 


Pseudomys Gray, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1832, p. 39, 
April 21. Haplotype, Pseudomys australis Gray. 


PSEUDOMYS AUSTRALIS Gray, 1832. 
NATIVE MOUSE. 


Pseudomys australis australis Gray, 1832. 

Pseudomys australis Gray, Proce. Comm. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1832, p. 39, April 21. Liverpool Plains, New South 
Wales (Cunningham). 

Pseudomys greyti Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 113, 
May 13. New name for P. australis Gray. Liverpool 
Plains, New South Wales. 

Mus lineolatus Gould, Proce. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, p. 77, 
October. Darling Downs, New South Wales, = Queens- 
land. 

Hapalotis murinus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845. p. 
78, October. Namoi Plains, New South Wales. 

New South Wales (interior). 


Pseudomys australis oralis Thomas, 1921. 

Pseudomys australis oralis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) viii, p. 621, December. Coast of New South Wales. 

New South Wales (Coastal). 


PSEUDOMYS HIGGINSI Trouessart, 1899. 
HiceGins’ MOUSE. 

Mus higginsi Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. viv. and foss., i, p. 473. 
New name for 

Mus leucopus Higgins and Petterd, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. 
Tasm., 1882, p. 174, pl, figs. 4, 4a. Kentishbury, 
Tasmania (Higgins). Not Mus leucopus Gray, List 
Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 110, 1843. 

Tasmania. 


PSEUDOMYS AURITUS Thomas, 1910. 
LONG-EARED MOUSE. 

Pseudomys auritus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi, 
p. 607, December. Lake Albert, South Australia 
(Strange). 

South Australia. 


PSEUDOMYS MINNIE Troughton, 1932. 
Minnie Downs MOUSE. 

Pseudomys (Pseudomys) minnie Troughton, Rec. Austr. Mus., 
xviii, p. 287, April 20. Minnie Downs Station, extreme 
North-east of South Australia (L. R. Reese). 

South Australia (Interior). 


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PSEUDOMYS RAWLINNA Troughton, 1932. 
1932. 


RAWILINNA MOUSE. 
Pseudomys (Pseudomys) rawlinne Troughton, Rec. Austr. 
Mus., xviii, p. 289, April20. Rawlinna, Trans-Australian 
Railway, West Australia, 235 miles east of Kalgoorlie. 
South Western Australia (interior). 

PSEUDOMYS SHORTRIDGEL Thomas, 1907. 
SHORTRIDGE’S MOUSE. 

1907. 
April 1907. 


Mus shortridget Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1906, p. 765 
Woyaline, 
Shortridge). 


South-West Australia (G. C. 
South Western Australia. 


1910. 


Genus THETOMYS Thomas, 1910. 
Thetomys Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi, p. 606, 
December 1. Orthotype, Mus nanus Gould. 
THETOMYS NANUS Gould, 1858. 
1858. 


LirtLE Movwsk. 
Mus nanus Gould, Proce. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1857, p. 243, 


January 12,1858 ; Mamm. Austr., pt. x, 1858. 
Plains, West Australia (Gilbert). 
Western Australia. 


Victoria 
THETOMYS FERCULINUS Thomas, 1902. 
BARROW ISLAND MOoUsE. 
1902. Mus ferculinus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) x, p. 491, 
December 1. Barrow Island, West Australia (J. 
Tunney). 
Western Australia (Barrow Island). 
1910. 


THETOMYS PRAHCONIS Thomas, 1910. 
SHAGGY-HAIRED MOUSE. 


Pseudomys (Lhetomys) preconis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (8) vi, p. 608, December 1. 


Peron’s Peninsula, 
Shark’s Bay, West Australia (G. C. Shortridge). 
Western Australia (Shark’s Bay). 
THETOMYS GRACILICAUDATUS Gould, 1845. 
QUEENSLAND MOUSE. 
1845. Mus gracilicaudatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, 
p. 77, October. 


Oak Creek, Darling Downs, Queensland 
(cf. Mamm. Austr., Introd., May 1, 1863). 
South Queensland. 


THETOMYS GOULDIL Waterhouse, 1839. 
1839. 


GOULD’S MOUSE. 

Mus gouldii Waterhouse, Zool. Voy. ‘“‘ Beagle,’ I, Mamm., 
p. 67; ii, pl. 34, figs. 18a—b. 

New South Wales. 


New South Wales. 
1910. 


Genus LEGGADINA Thomas, 1910. 
Leggadina Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi, p. 606, 
December 1. 


Orthotype, Mus forresti Thomas. 


ry 


1906. 


(a) 
1842. 


1843. 


(b) 
1926, 


1909. 


1896. 


(a) 
1896. 


(b) 
1932. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


LEGGADINA FORRESTI Thomas, 1906. 
FORREST’S MOUSE. 
Mus forresti Thomas, Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1906, 
No. 32, p. 6, May 22; Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1906, 
p. 536, pl. xxxvii, October. Alexandria, Northern 
Territory (Stalker). 
North Australia. 


LEGGADINA DELICATULA Gould, 1842. 
PigmMy MOUSE. . 
Leggadina delicatula delicatula Gould, 1842. 
Mus delicatulus Gould, Proe. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, p. 13, 
June. No locality Port Essington, North Australia. 
Mus albirostris Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 112, 
May 13, as synonym, ex Gouid MS. 
North Australia. 


Leggadina delicatula mimula Thomas, 1926. 

Pseudomys (Leggadina) delicatulus mimulus Thomas, Ann. 
Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xvii, p. 634, June1. Groote Eylandt, 
Gulf of Carpentaria, North Australia (Wilkins). 

North Australia (Groote Eylandt). 


LEGGADINA PATRIA Thomas and Dollman, 1909. 
Woov-Brown MOUSE. 
Mus patrius Thomas and Dollman, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1908, p. 791, April. Inkerman, Queensland (Stalker). 
North-east Queensland. 


LEGGADINA FIELDI Waite, 1896. 
FIELD’S MOUSE. 

Mus fieldi Waite, Rep. Horn Sci. Exped. Centr. Austr., Zool. 
ii, p. 403, pl. xxvi, fig. 4, February. Alice Springs, 
Central Australia (Field). 

Central Australia. 


LEGGADINA HERMANNSBURGENSIS Wate, 1896. 
DESERT MOUSE. 
Leggadina hermannsburgensis hermannsburgensis Waite, 1896. 
Mus hermannsburgensis Waite, Rep. Horn Sci. Exped. Centr. 
Austr., Zool. ii, p. 405, pl. xxvi, figs. 5a—f, February. 
Hermannsburg, Central Australia. 
Central Australia. 


Leggadina hermannsburgensis bolami Troughton, 1932. 

Pseudomys hermannsburgensis bolami Troughton, Rec. Austr. 
Mus., xviii, p. 292, April 20. Ooldea, Trans-Australian 
Railway, South Australia (A. G. Bolam). 

South Australia (West). 


1925. 


1932. 


1910. 


1843. 


1), 


1932. 


1932. 


(a) 


1845. 


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LEGGADINA MESSORIA Thomas, 1925. 
MELROSE DESERT MOUSE. 

Pseudomys (Leggadina) messorius Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (9) xv, p. 670, June 1. Melrose, Spencer Gulf, 
South Australia (Wood Jones). 

South Australia. 


LEGGADINA WAITEL Troughton, 1932. 
WAITE’S MOUSE. 

Pseudomys (Leggadina) waitei Troughton, Rec. Austr. Mus., 
xviii, p. 290, April 20. Alice Springs area, Central 
Australia. 

Central Australia. 


Genus Gyomys Thomas, 1910. 
Gyomys Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi, p. 607, 
December 1. Orthotype, Mus noveholiandiw Water- 
house. 


GYOMYS NOVHHOLLANDIZ Waterhouse, 1843. 
Dark GREY MOUSE. 

Mus novehollandie Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1842, p. 146, February 1843. Yarrundi, Upper Hunter 
River, New South Wales. 

New South Wales. 


Gyomys GLAUCUS Thomas, 1910. 
BLUE-GREY MOUSE. 
Pseudomys (Gyomys) glaucus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(8) vi, p. 609, December 1. South Queensland. 
South Queensland. 


GYOMYS DESERTOR Troughton, 1932. 
CHESTNUT DESERT MOUSE. 
Pseudomys (Gyomys) desertor Troughton, Rec. Austr. Mus., 
xviii, p. 293, April 20. Wycliffe Creek, Central Australia. 
Central Australia. 


GYOMYS APODEMOIDES Finlayson, 1932. 
FINLAYSON’S MOUSE. 

Pseudomys (Gyomys) apodemoides Winlayson, Trans. Proce. 
Roy. Soc. South Austr., Ivi, p. 170, December 24. Coombe, 
Upper North-east District of South Australia. 

South Australia (Interior). 


GYOMYS ALBOCINEREUS Gould, 1845. 
ASHY-GREY MOUSE. 
Gyomys albocinereus albocinereus Gould, 1845. 
Mus albocinereus Gould, Proce. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, p. 78, 
October. Moore’s River, West Australia (Gilbert). 
Western Australia. 


80 


(b) 
1907. 


1882. 


1882. 


1909. 


1909. 


1896. 


1906. 


1906. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Gyomys albocinereus squalorum Thomas, 1907. 

Mus albocinereus squalorum Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1906, p. 776, April 1907. Bernier Island, Shark’s Bay, 
West Australia (G. C. Shortridge). 

Western Australia (Bernier Island). 


Genus MASTACOMYS Thomas, 1882. 


Mastacomys Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) ix, p. 413, 
June 1. Orthotype, Mastacomys fuscus Thomas. 


MAsTAcoMys Fuscus Thomas, 1882. 
BROAD-TOOTHED RAT. 
Mastacomys fuscus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) ix, 
p. 413, June. Tasmania (R. Gunn). 
Tasmania, Victoria. 


[Mastacomys mordicus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) x, 
p. 551, November 1922. Maxilla and three molars only 
from Mt. Gambier District, South Australia (Wood 
Jones). 

South Australia. ] 


Genus LAoMYS Thomas, 1909. 


Laomys Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ili, p. 373, April 1. 
Orthotype, Laomys woodwardi Thomas. 


LAOMYS WOODWARDI Thomas, 1909. 
WESTERN THICK-TAILED Rat. 

Laomys woodwardi Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) iii, 
p. 373, April 1. Parry’s Creek, Wyndham, North-West 
Australia (J. P. Rogers). 

North Western Australia. 


LAOMYS PEDUNCULATUS Waite, 1896. 
CENTRAL THICK-TAILED Rat. 

Conilurus pedunculatus Waite, Rep. Horn Sci. Exped. Centr. 
Austr., Zool., ii, p. 395, figs. la—f, February. Alice 
Springs, Central Australia (var. brachyotis, p. 397, 
Ilamurta). 

Central Australia. 


Genus MESEMBRIOMYS Palmer, 1906. 
Mesembriomys Palmer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, p. 97, 
June 4. New name for 
Ammomys Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xvii, p. 83, 
January 1. Orthotype, Mus hirsutus Gould, = Hapalotis 
gouldii Gray. Not Ammomys Bonaparte, Saggio. metod. 
Anim. vert., p. 20, 1831. 


(a) 
1843. 


1842. 


(b) 
1924. 


1906. 


1853. 


1921. 


1848. 


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MESEMBRIOMYS GOULDIL Gray, 1843. 
LONG-HAIRED RABBIT-RAT. 

Mesembriomys gouldit gould Gray, 1843. 

Hapalotis gouldit Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 116, 
May 13 (ev Journ. Two Exped. Australia (Grey), ii, 
App., pp. 413-414, November 1841, nom. nud). New 
name for 

Mus hirsutus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, p. 12, 
June. No locality=Port Essington, North Australia. 
Not Mus hirsutus Elliott, Madras Journ., x, p. 213, 1839. 

North Australia. 


Mesembriomys gouldii rattoides Thomas, 1924. 

Mesembriomys hirsutus rattoides Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (9) xvii, p. 296, March. Cooktown, North Queens- 
land (H. C. Robinson). 

North Queensland. 


MESEMBRIOMYS MACRURUS Peters, 1876. 
REDDISH-BROWN RABBIT-RAT. 

Hapalotis macrurus Peters, Monatsh. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 
Berlin, p. 355, pl. Mermaid Strait, near Roeburne, 
West Australia. . 

Hapalotis boweri Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) i, 
p. 1153, February 22. North-West Australia (Derby) 
(Bowyer-Bower). 

North Western Australia. 


Genus LEPORILLUS Thomas, 1906. 
Leporillus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xvii, p. 83, 
January 1. Orthotype, Hapalotis apicalis Gould. 


LEPORILLUS APICALIS Gould, 1853. 
WHITE-TAILED HOUSE-BUILDING RAT. 
Hapalotis apicalis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1851, 
p. 126, April 29, 1853; Mamm. Austr., pt. v, 1853. 
No locality =South Australia (Strange). 
New South Wales, South Australia. 


LEPORILLUS JONESI Thomas, 1921. 
FRANKLIN ISLAND HOUSE-BUILDING Rav. 

Leporillus jonesi Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) viii, 
p. 618, December 1. Franklin Island, Nuyt’s Archipelago, 
South Australia (Wood Jones). 

South Australia (Franklin Island, Nuyt’s Archipelago). 


LEPORILLUS CONDITOR Sturt, 1848. 
HOUSE-BUILDING Rat. 
Mus conditor Sturt, Narr. Exped. Central Austr., i, p. 120, 
col. pl., ee Gould MS. December; ii, App., pp. 4-7. 
Brushes of the Darling, New South Wales. 


82 


1849. 


1829. 
1838. 


1397. 


1858. 


1842. 


(1843. 


1909. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Hapalotis conditor Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. ii (Vol. IIT, pl. 6), 
September. Same specimens. 
New South Wales, South Australia. 


Genus CONILURUS Ogilby, 1838. 

Conilurus Ogilby, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.) xviii, p. 124, ante 
August. Haplotype, Conilurus constructor Ogilby = 
Hapalotis albipes Lichtenstein. 

Hapalotis Lichtenstein, Darst. der Saugth., pt. vi, text to pl. 
xxix. Haplotype, Hapalotis alhipes Lichtenstein. Not 
Hapalotis Huebner, Verz. Schmett., p. 254, 1825. 


CONILURUS ALBIPES Lichtenstein, 1829. 
WHITE-FOOTED RABBIT-RAT. 


Hapalotis albipes Lichtenstein, Darst. der Saugth., pt. vi, 
pl. xxix. New South Wales. 

Conilurus constructor Ogilby, Trans. Linn. Soe. (Lond.), 
xviii, p. 126, ante August. New South Wales (Caley). 

Conilurus destructor Palmer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xi, p. 259, 
lapsus only. New South Wales. 

New South Wales, Central Australia. 


CONILURUS HEMILEUCURUS Gray, 1858. 
ELSEY’S RABBIT-RAT. 
Hapalotis hemileucura Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1857, 
p. 243, January 12, 1858. North Australia (J. R. cee 
North Australia. 


CONILURUS PENICILLATUS Gould, 1842. 
BLACK-TAILED RABBIT-RAT. 

Mus penicillatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, p. 12, 
June. Port Essington, North Australia. 

Hapalotis melanura Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 
p. 115, May 13, .e ‘Gould, Proc. Zool Soc.” No 
locality. Nom. nud.] 

North Australia. 


CONILURUS MELIBIUS Thomas, 1921. 
MELVILLE ISLAND RABBIT-Rat. 

Conilurus melibius Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) viii, 
p. 431, October 1. Melville Island, North Australia 
(Glgsgex, Rogers). 

North Australia (Melville Island). 


Genus Zvzomys Thomas, 1909. 
Zyzomys Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) iii, p. 372, April. 
Orthotype, Mus argurus Thomas. 


(a) 


1889. 


(b) 
1909. 


1842. 
1897. 


1922. 


11 pals 


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ZYZOMYS ARGURUS Thomas, 1889. 
WHITE-TAILED RAT. 


Zyzomys argurus argurus Thomas, 1889. 

Mus argurus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) iii, p. 433, 
May. South Australia. 

South Australia. 


Zyzomys argurus indutus Thomas, 1909. 

Mesembriomys argurus indutus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(8) iii, p. 151, February. Parry’s Creek, Wyndham, 
North-West Australia (J_ P. Rogers). 

North Western Australia. 


Genus Notomys Lesson, 1842. 
Notomys Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Regn. Anim., Mamm., p. 129, 
November. Haplotype, Dipus mitchellii Ogilby. 
Podanomalus Waite, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., x (n.s.), p. 117, 
July. Haplotype, Hapalotis longicaudata Gould. 


NOTOMYS MITCHELLIT Ogilby, 1838. 
MITCHELL’S KANGAROO-MOUSE. 

Notomys mitchellii mitchellii Ogilby, 1838. 

Dipus mitchellii Ogilby, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), xviii, 
p. 130, ante August. Reedy plains, junction of Murray 
and Murrumbidgee Rivers, New South Wales. 

New South Wales, Victoria. 


Notomys mitchellii macropus Thomas, 1921. 

Notomys mitchellii macropus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) viii, p. 540, November. South Australia (Port 
Lincoln) (J. B. Harvey). 

South Australia. 


NoTOMYS MORDAX Thomas, 1922. 
THOMAS’S KANGAROO-MOUSE. 
Notomys mordax Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ix, p. 317, 
Aprill. Skullonly. Darling Downs, South Queensland. 
South Queensland. 


Noromys AQuILO Thomas, 1921. 
CAPE YORK KANGAROO-MOUSE. 

Notomys aquilo Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) vii, 
p. 540, November 1. Cape York, Queensland (T. 
Cockerell). 

North Queensland (Cape York). 


Me 


84 


1844. 


1921. 


1853. 


1853. 


1853. 


1922. 


1921. 


1900. 


133i 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


NoOTOMYS LONGICAUDATUS Gould, 1844. 
LONG-TAILED KANGAROO-MOUSE. 

Hapalotis longicaudata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1844, 
p. 104, October 1. Moore’s River, West Australia 
(Gilbert). 

South-Western Australia, South Australia. 


NOTOMYS MEGALOTIS nom. nov. 
LARGE-EARED KANGAROO-MOUSE. 

Notomys macrotis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) viii, 
p. 538, November 1. Moore’s River, West Australia 
(Gilbert), ex Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 171, 1862, 
invalid through usage in Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1851, 
p. 127, April 29, 1853. 

South Western Australia. 


NOTOMYS RICHARDSONIL Gould, 1853. 
RICHARDSON’S KANGAROO-MOUSE. 
Hapalotis richardsonii Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1851, 
p. 127, April 29, 1853, ex Gray MS., as synonym of 
Hapalotis gouldii Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1851, p. 127, 
April 29, 1853 (ew Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Australia 
(Grey), ii, App., pp: 404-413, nom. nud.) for Hapalotis 
mitchellii Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. i, pl. 15, May 1842. 
(Not Notomys mitchellii Ogilby, as above.), Not 
Hapalotis gouldii Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 
p. 116, May 13, 1843. 

Hapalotis macrotis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1851, 
p. 127, April 29, 1853, ex Gray MS, as synonym. 

South Western Australia. 


NoToMYS ALEXIS Thomas, 1922. 
ALEXANDRIA KANGAROO-MOUSE. 
Notomys alexis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ix, p. 316, 
April 1. Alexandria, Northery Territory (W. Stalker). 
North Australia. 


Notomys sturt1 Lhomas, 1921. 
Strurt’s KANGAROO-MOUSE. 

Notomys sturti Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) viii, p. 537, 
November 1. Interior of New South Wales, Darling 
Range (Capt. Sturt). 

New South Wales. 


Genus ASCOPHARYNX Waite, 1900. 
Ascopharyna Waite, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) v, p. 222, 
February. New name for 
Thylacomys Waite, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., x (n.s.) p. 121, 
July. Haplotype, Hapalotis cervinus Gould. Not Thyla- 
comys Blyth, 1840, cf. Macrotis, p. 19, ante. 


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ASCOPHARYNX CERVINUS Gould, 1853. 
FAWN-COLOURED KANGAROO-MOUSE. 


1853. Hapalotis cervinus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1851, 
p. 127, April 29, 1853; Mamm. Austr., pt. iv, 1853. 
Interior South Australia (Capt. Sturt). 

(1843. Mus fuscus Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 112, May 13, 
nom. nud. South Australia (Capt. G. Grey). ] 

1925. Ascopharynx fuscus Wood Jones, Rec. South Austr. Mus., 
ili, p. 3, June 30. Ooldea, South Australia (A. G. Bolam). 


South Australia. 


Genus UROMYS Peters, 1867. 


1867. Uromys Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 
p-. 343, June (30). Haplotype, Mus macropus Gray = 
Hapalotis caudimaculata Kreftt. 

1867. Gymnomys Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1867, p. 597, 
October 22. Haplotype, Mus macropus Gray. 


UROMYS CAUDIMACULATUS Krefft, 1867. 
GIANT SCALE-TAILED RAT. 
(a) Uromys caudimaculatus caudimaculatus Krettt, 1867. 

1867. Hapalotis caudimaculata Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1867, p. 316, figs. 1-7, October 22. Cape York, North 
Queensland. 

1866. Mus macropus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1866, p. 221, 
September 5. Port Albany, Cape York, North Queens- 
land (C. Coxen). Not Mus macropus Hodgson, Ann. 
Mag. Nat. Hist., xv, p. 266, 1845. 


North Queensland (Cape York). 


(b) Uromys caudimaculatus exilis Troughton and Le Souef, 1929. 

1929. Uromys macropus exilis Troughton and Le Souef, Austr. 
Zool., vi, p. 98, August 13. Hinchinbrook Island, North 
Queensland. 


North Queensland (Hinchinbrook Island). 


UROMYS SHERRINI Thomas, 1923. 
SHERRIN’S GIANT SCALE-TAILED RAT. 


1923. Uromys sherrini Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xi, p. 171, 
January 1. Ravenshoe, North Queensland (T. Sherrin). 
North Queensland. 


Genus MELOMYS Thomas, 1922. 


1922. Melomys Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ix, p. 261, March 1. 
Orthotype, Uromys rufescens Alston. 


86 


(a) 
1852. 


(b) 
1924. 


(ce) 


1929. 


1907. 


(a) 
1916. 


(b) 
1929. 


1924. 


1930. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


MELOMYS CERVINIPES Gould, 1852. 
FAWN-FOOTED SCALE-TAILED RAT. 

Melomys cervinipes cervinipes Gould, 1852. 

Mus cervinipes Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. iv (Vol. iii, pl. xiv). 
Hunter River to Moreton Bay; restricted locality, 
Stradbroke Island, Moreton Bay. 

New South Wales, South Queensland. 


Melomys cervinipes eboreus Thomas, 1924. 

Melomys cervinipes eboreus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) xiii, p. 297, March. Ravenshoe, North Queensland 
(T. Sherrin). 

North Queensland. 


Melomys cervinipes pallidus Troughton and Le Souef, 1929. 

Melomys cervinipes pallidus Troughton and Le Souef, Austr. 
Zool., vi, p. 97, August 13. Hinchinbrook Island, North 
Queensland. 

North Queensland (Hinchinbrook Island). 


MELOMYS BANFIELDI De Vis, 1907. 
BANFIELD’S SCALE-TAILED RAT. 
Uromys banfieldi De Vis, Ann. Queensland Mus., vii, p. 8, 
June 7. Dunk Island, Queensland (Banfield). 
Queensland (Dunk Island). 


MELOMYS LITTORALIS Lonnberg, 1916. 
LONNBERG’S SCALE-TAILED RAT. 
Melomys littoralis littoralis Lonnberg, 1916. 
Uromys littoralis Lonnberg, Kungl. Sv. Vetensk. Handl. 52, 
2, p. 5, January 18. Russell River, North Queensland. 
North Queensland. 


Melomys littoralis insule Troughton and Le Souef, 1929. 

Melomys littoralis insule Troughton and Le Souef, Austr. 
Zool., vi, p. 96, August 13. Hinchinbrook Island, North 
Queensland. 

North Queensland (Hinchinbrook Island). 


MELOMYS AUSTRALIUS Thomas, 1924. 
CAPE YORK SCALE-TAILED Rat. 
Melomys australius Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xill, 
p. 298, March. Piara, Cape York, North Queensland 
(R. Kemp). 
North Queensland (Cape York). 


MeELomys muRINUS Thomas, 1913. 
MvurrAY ISLAND SCALE-TAILED RAT. 
Uromys murinus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, p. 216, 
August. Murray Island, Torres Straits (A. P. Haddon). 
North Queensland (Murray Island). 


1924. 


1913. 


1844. 


1842. 


1843. 


1844. 


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MELOMYS RUBICOLA Thomas, 1924. 
BRAMBLE CAY SCALE-TAILED RAT. 

Melomys rubicola Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xiii, 
p. 298, March. Bramble Cay, Torres Straits (Mac- 
gillivray). 

North Queensland (Bramble Cay). 


MELOMYS MELICcUS Thomas, 1913. 
MELVILLE ISLAND SCALE-TAILED RAT. 

Uromys melicus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, p. 215, 
August. Melville Island, Northern Territory (J. P. 
Rogers). 

North Australia (Melville Island). 


Order PINNIPEDIA. 


Family PHOCIDA. 
TRUE SEALS. 


Genus LOBODON Gray, 1844. 

Lobodon Gray, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, pt. i, Mamm., 
p. 2. Haplotype, Phoca carcinophaga Hombron and 
Jacquinot. 


LOBODON CARCINOPHAGA Hombron and Jacquinot, 1842. 
CRAB-EATING SBAL. 

Phoca carcinophaga Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. Pole Sud., 
Atlas, pl. 10; Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., 
p. 2, 1844. Southern Ocean. 

Stenorhynchus serridens Owen, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xii, 
p. 331, November 1. High latitudes, Australian Seas 
(M’Cormick). 

Lobodon cancrivora Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., 
p. 7. Grayism only. 

Straggler to southern Australia. 


Genus HYDRURGA Gistel, 1848. 

Hydrurga Gistel, Nat. Thierr. héhere Schulen, p. xi (preface 
BHaster, 1847). New name for Stenorhynchus Nilsson= 
Cuvier. 

Stenorhinchus Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), xxxix, p. 553, 
April 29. Haplotype, Phoca leptonyx Blainville. Not 
Stenorhynchus Lamarck, 1818, nor Megerle, 1823 (Sher- 
born). 

Stenorhynchus Gray, Ann. Philos. (Thomson), xxvi (n.s. Xx), 
p. 340, October, ex Cuvier vernacular. Nom. nud. 
Ogmorhinus Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 
p. 393, June (30). New name for Stenorhinchus Cuvier, 

1826. 

Stenorhynchotes Turner, Rep. Sci. Res. Challenger, Zool., 

xxvi, Seals, p. 63, footnote. Alternative new name only. 


88 


1820. 
1828. 


1872. 
1837. 


1891. 


1826. 
1839. 


1807. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


HYDRURGA LEPTONYX Blainville, 1820. 
SEA LEOPARD OR LEOPARD SEAL. 
Phoca leptonyx Blainville, Journ. de Physique, xci, p. 298, 
October. Falkland Islands and South Georgia. 
Phoca homei Lesson, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat., xiii, p. 417, 
January. New name for Phoca leptonyx Blainville. 
Straggler to southern Australia. 


Genus LEPTONYCHOTES Gill, 1872. 


Leptonychotes Gill, Smithson. Misc. Colln., No. 30, p. 70, 
November. New name for 

Leptonyx Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth), i, p. 582, 
November. Haplotype, Otaria weddellii Lesson. Not 
Leptonyx Swainson, 1833, fide Sherborn. 

Pecilophoca Lydekker, Mamm. Living and Extinct, p. 605. 
New name for Leptonyx Gray. 


LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLU Lesson, 1826. 
WEDDELL’S SEAL. 


Otaria weddellii Lesson, Bull. Sci. Nat. (Ferussac), vil, p. 437. 
South Orkney Isles. 

Phoca leopardina Hamilton, Nat. Library (Jardine), Seals, 
p. 183, pl. 12, January. South Orkney Isles. 


Straggler to South Australia. 


Genus MACRORHINUS Cuvier, 1826. 


Macrorhinus Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), xxxix, pp. 
552-561, April 29. Orthotype, Phoca proboscidea Peron 
and Lesueur. 

Macrorhinus Gray, Ann. Philos. (Thomson), xxvi (n.s. X), 
p. 340, November, ev Cuvier vernacular. Nom. nud. 

Mirounga Griffith, Smith and Pidgeon, Animal Kingdom 
(Cuvier), Vol. V, Synopsis, p. 179. Tautotype, Phoca 
proboscidea Péron and Lesueur. 

Rhinophoca Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amphib., p. 27, August. 
New name for Macrorhinus Cuvier. 

Morunga Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. (Charlesworth), ii, p. 582, 
November. Emendation only. 

Physorhinus Gloger, Hand-u. Hilfsb., Nat., i, p. 163, ante 
May. Haplotype, Phoca proboscidea Péron and Lesueur. 
Not Physorhinus Eschscholtz, 1836. 


MACRORHINUS PROBOSCIDEUS Péron and Lesueur, 1807. 
SEA ELEPHANT. 


Phoca proboscidea Péron and Lesueur, Voy. Terres. Austr., 
Atlas, pl. xxxii. King Island, Bass Strait. 


Straggler to southern Australia. Formerly resident. 


1866. 


1816. 
1816. 


[1818. 


1830. 


[1828. 


1866. 


1872. 


1925. 


1926. 


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Family OTARIIDA. 
EARED SEALS. 
Genus NEOPHOCA Gray, 1866. 


Neophoca Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xviii, p. 231, 
September. Haplotype, Arctocephalus lobatus Gray. 


NEOPHOCA CINEREA Peron and Lesueur, 1816. 
Hare SEAL. 


Otaria cinerea Péron and Lesueur, Voy. Terres. Austr., ii, 
p. 54. Kangaroo Island, South Australia. 

Otaria albicollis Péron and Lesueur, Voy. Terres Austr., 
ii, p. 118. St. Peter Island, Nuyt’s Archipelago, South 
Australia. 

Otaria peronit Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., 
xxv, p. 598, December 26. Rottnest Island, West 
Australia. M. Bailly, with Péron and Lesueur. Error 
of locality. Not Australian=pusilla Linné.] 

Otaria australis Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrol. Zool., i, 
p. 93, pls. 14-15. King George’s Sound, West Australia. 

Arctocephalus lobatus Gray, Spicilegia Zoologica, pt. i, p. 1, 
pl. 4, fig. 22a (skull only), July 1. No locality.] 

Southern Australia, from Kangaroo Island to Houtman’s 
Abrolhos. 


Genus GYPSOPHOCA Gray, 1866. 


Gypsophoca Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xviii, p. 236, 
September 1. Haplotype, Phoca cinerea Gray. 


GYPSOPHOCA TROPICALIS Gray, 1872. 
Fur SEAL. 


Gypsophoca tropicalis Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1872, 
p. 659, November 3. Also misspelt subtropicalis Gray. 
North Coast of Australia (J. Macgillivray). Error= 
probably Tasmania. 

South eastern Australia. 


GYPSOPHOCA DORIFERA Wood Jones, 1925. 
SoutH AUSTRALIAN FuR SEAL. 
Arctocephalus doriferus Wood Jones, Rec. South Austr. Mus., 
ili, p. 14, June 30. Kangaroo Island, South Australia. 
South and Western Australia. 


GYPSOPHOCA TASMANICA Scott and Lord, 1926. 
TASMANIAN FUR SEAL. 

“dieioumaats tasmanicus Scott and Lord, Papers Proc. Roy. 
Soc. Tasm., 1925, p. 187, pls. xvi-xxi, March 5, 1926. 
Bass Straits. 

Bass Straits, Tasmania. 


90 


1758. 


1793. 


1820. 


1826. 


1762. 


1799. 


1825. 


1878. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Order CARNIVORA. 
Does, Cats, ETC. 
Family CANIDA. 
Does. 
Genus CANIS Linné, 1758. 
Canis Linné, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 38, January 1. Tauto- 
type, Canis familiaris Linné. Extralimital synonymy 
not collated. 


CANIS DINGO Meyer, 1793. 
THE DINGO. 

Canis dingo Meyer, Zool. Entdeck, p. 33, based on Dingo or 
Dog of New South Wales, White, p. 280; Dog of “New 
South Wales, Phillipp, p. 274. Port Jackson. 

Canis familiaris australasie Desmarest, Tabl. Ency. Meth., 
Mamm., p. 191. Port Jackson, New South Wales 
(Péron and Lesueur). 

Cams australie Gray, Narr. Surv. Coasts Austr. (King), ii, 
p. 412, “1827 ’=April 18, 1826. New name for Canis 
australasie Desmarest. 

Australia generally. Not Tasmania. 


Order CHIROPTERA. 
BATS. 


Suborder MEGACHIROPTERA. 
FRUIT-EATING BATS. 


Family PTEROPODIDA. 
“* FLYING-FOXES.”’ 


Genus PrEROPUS Brisson, 1762. 

Pteropus Brisson, Regne Anim., 2nd ed., pp. 13,153. Tauto- 
type—Pteropus VAMPYPUS Linné, 

Spectrum Lacépéde, Tabl. Mamm., p. 15; Daudin, Hist. Nat. 

Buffon (ed. Didot), Quadr., xiv, p. 188, 1802. Haplo- 

type, Spectrum vampirus Lacépéde. Not Spectrum 

Scopoli, 1777. 


‘ 


PTEROPUS POLIOCEPHALUS Temminck, 1825. 
GREY-HEADED FLyING-Fox. 
Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck, Mon. Mamm., i, p. 179. 
New Holland. 
Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Cape Howe on the 
Victorian border. 


PTEROPUS BRUNNEUS Dobson, 1878. 
Dusky FLyInG-Fox. 

Pteropus brunneus Dobson, Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., p. 37, 
pl. ii, fig. 4, June. Perey Isles, Queensland (Capt. 
Denham). 

Queensland. 


1867. 


1850. 


1862. 
1866. 


1797. 
1800. 
1810. 
1811. 


1837. 


1910. 


1904. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 91 


PTEROPUS GOULDI Peters, 1867. 
GOULD’S FLyiInG-Fox. 

Pieropus gouldii Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 
Berlin, 1867, p. 703, November (30). Rockhampton, 
Queensland. 

Coastal northern Australia, from Rockhampton in Queensland 
to Derby, north Western Australia. 


PTEROPUS CONSPICILLATUS Gould, 1850. 
SPECTACLED FLYING-Fox. 

Pieropus conspicillatus Gould, Proce. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1849, 
p. 184, between January and June, 1850. Fitzroy 
Island, Queensland (Capt. Stanley and J. Macgillivray, 
** Rattlesnake ’’). 

North Queensland, from Cardwell to Cape York. 


PETROPUS SCAPULATUS Peters, 1862. 
COLLARED FLYING-Fox. 
Pieropus scapulatus Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 
Berlin, 1862, p. 574, August 14. Cape York, Queensland. 
Pieropus elseyti Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1866, p. 6%, 
May 8. North-east Coast of Australia, Claremont 
Island (J. Macgillivray, 1860, Dr. J. R. Hlsey). 
North Western Australia to southern Queensland, migratory 
to Victorian border. 


Genus NYCTIMENE H.A., 1797. 
Nyctimene H.A., Compend. Bibliothek., xxi (Zool. vi-viii), 
p. 60. Haplotype, Vesperlilio cephalotes Pallas. 
Nyctemene Bechstein, Uebers. vierfiisse Thiere, ii, pp. 615, 736. 
Same type. : 

Cephalotes Geoffroy, Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. (Paris), xv, p. 
104, ante September. Same type. 

Harpyia Mliger, Prodr. syst. Mamm. et Av., p. 118, preface 
April. Same type. 

Gelasinus Temminck, Mon. Mamm., ii, p. 100. Same type. 


NYCTIMENE PAPUANUS Andersen, 1910. 
PAPUAN TUBE-NOSED BAT. 
Nyctimene papuanus K. Andersen, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vi, 
p. 621, December 1. Milne Bay, British New Guinea 
(A. S. Meek). 
Queensland (Cape York). 


NYCTIMENE ROBINSONI Thomas, 1904. 
ROBINSON’S TUBE-NOSED BAT. 
Nyctymene robinsoni Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xiv, 
p. 196, September 1. Cooktown, Queensland (H. C. 
Robinson). ; 


92 MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


1921. Nyctimene tryont Longman, Mem. Queensland Maus., vii, 
p. 179, pl. xii, November 4. Canungra, Macpherson 
Range, South Queensland (H. Tryon). 
Eastern Queensland and New South Wales. 


Family KIODOTIDA. 


Genus ODONTONYCTERIS Jentink, 1902. 
1902. Odontonycteris Jentink, Notes Leyden Mus., xxiii, 1901, p. 140, 
July 15,1902. Orthotype, Odontonycteris meyeri Jentink. 


ODONTONYCTERIS PYGMHUS Andersen, 1911. 
PiGgMy FRUIT-BAT. 
1911. Macroglossus lagochilus pygmeus K. Andersen, Ann. Mag. 
Nat. Hist. (8) vii, p. 642, June 1. Murray Island, 
Torres Strait (A. C. Haddon). 
North Queensland (Murray Island). 


ODONTONYCTERIS LAGOCHILUS NANUS Lonnberg, 1913. 
1913. Macroglossus lagochilus nanus Matschie, Lonnberg, K. Svensk. 
Vetensk. Handl., 52, 1, p. 3, September 26. Sunday 
Island, Western Australia. 
Western Australia (Sunday Island). 


Genus SYCONYCTERIS Matschie, 1899. 
1899. Syconycteris Matschie, Fliederm. Berlin Mus., Lief. i, p. 95. 
Haplotype, Macroglossus minimus var. australis Peters. 


SYCONYCTERIS AUSTRALIS Peters, 1867. 
LITTLE FLYING-Fox. 

1867. Macroglossus minimus var. australis Peters, Monatsb. K. 
Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867, p. 13, January 10. 
Rockhampton, Queensland. 

Queensland (Mackay and Rockhampton). 


Suborder MICROCHIROPTERA. 
INSECT-EATING BATS. 


Family RHINOLOPHIDA. 
HORSESHOE LEAF-NOSED BATS. 


Genus RHINOPHYLLOTIS nov. 
Type Rhinolophus megaphyllus Gray. 


RHINOPHYLLOTIS MEGAPHYLLUS Gray, 1834. 
HORSESHOE BAT. 
(a) Rhinophyllotis megaphyllus megaphyllus Gray, 1834. 
1834. Rhinolophus megaphyllus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1834, 
p. 52, September 26. Moorumbidgee River, New Holland 
(G. Bennett). 
South Queensland, New South Wales. 


(b) 


1933. 


1847. 


1845. 


1831. 


1854. 


1866. 


1903. 


1913. 


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Rhinophyllotis megaphyllus ignifer Allen, 1933. 

Rhinolophus megaphyllus ignifer Allen, Journ. Mamm., ix, 
p. 149, May. Coen, Cape York, Queensland (Darlington). 

North Queensland. 


Family HIPPOSIDERID Ai. 
LEAF-NOSED BATS. 


Genus RHINONICTERIS Gray, 1847. 
Rhinonicteris Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1847, p. 16, 
April 13. Orthotype, Rhinolophus aurantius Gray. 


RHINONICTERIS AURANTIUS Gray, 1845. 
ORANGE HORSESHOE BAT. 

Rhinolophus aurantius Gray, Central Australia (Eyre), i, 
p. 405, pl. 1, fig. 1. Port Essington, North Australia 
(Dr. Sibbald). 

North and north Western Australia. 


Genus HIPPOSIDEROS Gray, 1831. 
Hipposideros Gray, Zool. Miscell., p. 37, February 19. Logo- 
type, Hipposideros speoris (Geoffroy). Extralimital 
synonymy not collated on account of extent. 


HIPPOSIDEROS CERVINUS Gould, 1854. 
FAWN-COLOURED HORSESHOE BAT. 

Rhinolophus ? cervinus Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. vi (Vol. iii, 
pl. xxxiv). Cape York and Albany Island, North 
Queensland (Macgillivray). 

North Queensland. 


HIPPOSIDEROS ALBANENSIS Gray, 1866. 
BROWN HORSESHOE BAT. 

Hipposideros albanensis Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1866, 
p. 220, September 5. Port Albany, Cape York, North 
Queensland (C. Coxen). 

North Queensland (Cape York and Albany Island). 


HIPPOSIDEROS SEMONI Matschie, 1903. 
SEMON’S HORSESHOE BAT. 
Hipposideros semoni Matschie, Denks. med. Nat. Gesell., 
Jena, viii (Zool. Forsch. Austr. (Semon), v, Heft 6, p. 774 
(p. 132 of Heft 6)). Cooktown, North Queensland. 
North Queensland. 


HIPPOSIDEROS STENOTIS Thomas, 1913. 
DAHL’S HORSESHOE BAT. 

Hipposideros stenotis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, 
p. 206, August 1. Mary River, Northern Territory 
(K. Dahl). 

North Australia. 


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1906. 


1880. 


1821. 


1831. 


(a) 
1821. 


1831. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Family MEGADERMID. 
FALSE VAMPIRE BATS. 


Genus MACRODERMA Miller, 1906. 
Macroderma Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, p. ul June 4. 
Orthotype, Megaderma gigas Dobson. 


MACRODERMA GIGAS Dobson, 1880. 
FALSE VAMPIRE BAT. 


Megaderma gigas Dobson, Proce. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1880, 
p. 461, pl. 46, October 1. Mt. Margaret, Wilson’s River, 
Central Queensland (Wilson). 

North-Western, North and Central Australia, and Queensland. 


Family VESPERTILIONIDAS. 
SIMPLE-NOSED BATS. 


Genus NYCTOPHILUS Leach, 1821. 
AUSTRALIAN LONG-EARED BATS. 
Nyctophilus Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.) xiii, i, p. 78, 
May. Haplotype, Nyctophilus geoffroyi Leach. 
Barbastellus Gray, Zool. Miscell., p. 38, February 19. Haplo- 
type, Barbastellus pacificus Gray. 


NYCTOPHILUS GEOFFROYI Leach, 1821. 
GEOFFROY’S LONG-EARED BAT. _ 

Nyctophilus geoffroyi geoffroyt Leach, 1821. 

Nyctophilus geoffroyi Leach, Trans. ‘Linn. Soe. (Lond.) xiii, 
1) pw (8, May. 2 No locality. Mus. D. Brookes=King 
George’s Sound, Western Australia, fide Tomes. 

Barbastellus novwhollandie Gray, Zool. Miscell., p. 38, Feb- 
ruary 19. New Holland. 


[1878 Nyctophilus leachii Dobson, Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., 


(b) 
1831. 


1858. 
1915. 


(ce) 
1913. 


p. 174, June, ex Gray MS. No locality.] 
South Western Australia. 


Nyctophilus geoffroyi pacificus Gray, 1831. 

Barbastellus pacificus Gray, Zool. Miscell., p. 38, February 19. 
Islands of the Pacifie Ocean =Tasmania. 

Nyctophilus unicolor Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1858, 
p. 33, March 9. Tasmania. 

Nyctophilus geayi Trouessart, Bull. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. (Paris), 
xxi, 5, p.146, June. Nicholson River, Victoria (F. Geay). 

Tasmania and South-East Australia. 


Nyctophilus geoffroyi pallescens Thomas, 1913. 

Nyctophilus geoffroyi pallescens Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(8) xi, p. 79, January. ‘Alexandria, Northern Territory 
(W. Stalker). 

South and North Australia, north-west Queensland. 


(a) 
1806. 


1875. 


(b) 


1915. 


(c) 
1858. 


1915. 


ALO cy. 


1892. 


(a) 
1841. 


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NYCTOPHILUS TIMORIENSIS Geoffroy, 1806. 
LARGE LONG-EARED BAT. 
Nytcophilus timoriensis timoriensis Geoffroy, 1806. 
Vespertilio timoriensis Geoffroy, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris), 
viii, p. 200, between June and September. “‘ Timor.” 
Error=West Australia. Type examined by Tomes. 
Nyctophilus major Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., 
p. 12b, pl. 21, fig. 2. No locality. 
South Western Australia. 


Nyctophilus timoriensis sherrinti Thomas, 1915. 

Nyctophilus sherrinti Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xv, 
p. 498, May 1. Tasmania. 

Tasmania. 


Nyctophilus timoriensis gouldi Tomes, 1858. 

Nyctophilus gouldi Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1858, 
p. 31, March 9. Moreton Bay, Queensland. 

South Queensland, New South Wales. 


NYCTOPHILUS BIFAX Thomas, 1915. 
NORTH QUEENSLAND LONG-EARED BAT. 
Nyctophilus bifax Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xv, 
p. 496, May 1. Herberton, North Queensland. 
North Queensland and Torres Strait Island. 


NYCTOPHILUS DADALUS Thomas, 1915. 
DaAuHL’s LONG-EARED BAT. 

Nyctophilus dedalus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xv, 
p. 498, May 1. Daly River, Northern Territory (Dr. K. 
Dahl). 

North Australia, Melville Island. 


NYCTOPHILUS WALKERI Thomas, 1892. 
LirtLE LONG-EARED BAT. 
Nyctophilus walkeri Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) ix, 
p. 405, May 1. Adelaide River, Northern Territory 
(J. J. Walker). 
North Australia. 


Genus VESPADELUS nov. 
Type Scotophilus pumilus Gray. 
VESPADELUS PUMILUS Gray, 1841. 
LItTLeE BAT. 

Vespadelus pumilus pumilus Gray, 1841. 

Scotophilus pumilus Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Australia 
(Grey), ii, App., p. 406, November. Yarrundi, New 
South Wales. 

South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales (Lord Howe 
Island). 


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(©) 


1914. 


1829. 


1840. 


1906. 


1875. 


1858. 


1869. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Vespadelus pumilus darlingtoni Allen, 1933. 

Eptesicus darlingtoni Allen, Journ. Mamm., xiv, p. 150, May. 
Macpherson Ranges, 3,000 feet, Queensland National 
Park, Queensland (Darlington). 

South Queensland. 


Vespadelus pumilus caurinus Thomas, 1914. 

Eptesicus pumilus caurinus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(8) xiii, p. 439, April 1. Drysdale, Kimberley, North 
West Australia (G. F. Hill). 

North Western Australia. 


Vespadelus pumilus vulturnus Thomas, 1914. 

Eptesicus pumilus vulturnus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(8) xili, p. 440, April1. Tasmania (Verreaux). 

Tasmania. 


Genus PIPISTRELLUS Kaup, 1829. 
Pipistrellus Kaup, Skizz-entwick. Nat. Europ. Thier., p. 97. 
Tautotype, Vespertilio pipistrellus Schreber. (Extensive 
extralimital synonymy not collated.) 


PIPISTRELLUS ABRAMUS Temminck, 1840. 
YELLOW-HEADED BAT. 
Vespertiio abramus Temminck, Mon. Mamm., ii, p. 232, 
pl. 58, figs. 1-2. Nagasaki, Japan (Siebold). 
North Australia, ranging from Japan. 


PIPISTRELLUS REGULUS Thomas, 1906. 
Kine RIVER Bat. 

Pipistrellus regulus Thomas, Proce. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1906, 
p. 470, October. King River, King George’s Sound, 
Western Australia. : 

South Western Australia. 


Genus GLISCHROPUS Dobson, 1875. 
Glischropus Dobson, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 472. 
October 1. Logotype, Vesperugo tylopus Dobson. 


GLISCHROPUS TASMANIENSIS Gould, 1858. 
KREFFT’S BAT. 

Vespertilio tasmaniensis Gould, Mamm. Austr., pl. x (Vol. iii, 
pl. xlviii), ex Noctulina tasmanensis Gray, List Spec. 
Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 194, May 13, 1843, nom. nud. 
Tasmania. -- 

Vesperugo kreffti Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 
Berlin, 1869, p. 404, May (31). New South Wales 
(Krefft). 

Tasmania, New South Wales, south Western Australia. 


1866. 


(a) 
1841. 


(b) 


1908. 


1841. 


1841. 


1859. 
1876. 


1852. 


1856. 


1909. 


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Genus CHALINOLOBUS Peters, 1866. 
LOBE-LIPPED BAT. 
Chalinolobus Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 
1866, p.-680, November (30). Haplotype, Vespertilio 
tuberculatus Forster. 


CHALINOLOBUS GOULDIL Gray, 1841. 
GOULD’s LOBE-LIPPED BAT. 

Chalinolobus gouldii gouldii Gray, 1841. 

Scotophilus gouldii Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Australia (Grey), 
ii, App., pp. 401, 405, November. Australasia =Laun- 
ceston, Tasmania, selected by Thomas, 1905. 

Tasmania, Western and South Australia, Victoria, New 
South Wales, south Queensland (Norfolk Island). 


Chalinolobus gouldii venatoris Thomas, 1908. 

Chalinolobus gouldii venatoris Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(8) ii, p. 372, Oct. Alexandria, Northern Territory. 
(Stalker). 

North Australia. 


CHALINOLOBUS MORIO Gray, 1841. 
CHOCOLATE LOBE-LIPPED BAT. 

Scotophilus morio Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Australia (Grey), 
li, App., pp. 400, 405, November. No locality =Tas- 
mania. ; 

Scotophilus australis Gray, Journ. Two Exped. Australia 
(Grey), ii, App., pp. 400, 406, November. No locality = 
Tasmania. 

Scotophilus microdon Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1859, 
p. 68, January to March. South Australia and Tasmania. 

Chalinolobus signifer Dobson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xvii, 
p. 289, April 1. Queensland. 

Tasmania, Western and South Australia, Victoria, New South 
Wales, south Queensland. 


CHALINOLOBUS PICATUS Gould, 1852. 
PIED OR BLACKISH-GREY BAT. 

Scotophilus picatus Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. iv (Vol. iii, 
pl. 43). Central Australia—Captain Sturt’s Depot, 
north-west New South Wales. 

Scotophilus nigrogriseus Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. viii (Vol. 
iii, pl. 44). Moreton Bay, Queensland (Strange). 

Southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. 


CHALINOLOBUS ROGERSI Thomas, 1909. 
Hoary LOBE-LIPPED BAT. 

Chalinolobus rogersi Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) wi, 
p. 150, February 1. Parry’s Creek, Wyndham, North 
Western Australia (J. P. Rogers). 

North Western Australia. 


98 


1875. 


1866. 


1858. 


1924. 


1906. 


1829. 


1855. 


1878. 


1905. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Genus ScorTEInus Dobson, 1875. 
Scoteinus Dobson, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1875, p. 371, 
October 1. Logotype, Scotophilus emarginatus Dobson. 


SCOTEINUS RUPPELLIZ Peters, 1866. 
RUPPELL’S BROAD-NOSED BAT. 

Nycticejus ruppellii Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 
Berlin, p. 21, January (30). Sydney, Western Australia 
(sie). 

New South Wales. 


SCOTEINUS GREYII Gould, 1858. 
GREY’S BAT. 

Scotophilus greyii Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. x (Vol. iii, pl. 45), 
ex Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 30, May 13, 
1843, nom. nud. Port Essington, North Australia. 

South and North Australia, Queensland, New South Wales. 


SCOTEINUS INFLUATUS Thomas, 1924. 
WILKIN’S BROAD-NOSED BAT. 
Scoteinus influatus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xiii, 
p. 540, May 1. Central South Queensland (Wilkins). 
South Queensland (Interior). 


SCOTEINUS BALSTONI Thomas, 1906. 
BALSTON’S BROAD-NOSED BAT. 

Scoteinus balstoni Thomas, Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1906, No. 31, p. 2, May 8; Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1906, p. 472, October. Laverton, South Western 
Australia (G. C. Shortridge). 

South Western Australia and South Australia. 


Genus Myotis Kaup, 1829. 
Myotis Kaup, Skizz-entwick. Nat. Europ. Thier., p. 105. 
Tautotype, Vespertilio murinus Schreber. 


Myoris MAcROPUS Gould, 1855. 
LARGE FooTED MYOTIS. 
Vespertilio macropus Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. vii (Vol. ili, 
pl. 47). South Australia. 
Western, North and South Australia, Queensland. 


MYOTIS AUSTRALIS Dobson, 1878. 
SMALL FooTeD MYOTIS. 
Vespertilio australis Dobson, Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., 
p. 317, June. New South Wales. 
New South Wales. 


Genus PHoniscus Miller, 1905. 
Phoniscus Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xviii, p. 229, 
December 9. Haplotype, Phoniscus atrov Miller. 


1878. 


1837. 


1840. 


1858. 


1922. 


1818. 


1854. 


1905. 


1915. 


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PHONISCUS PAPUENSIS Dobson, 1878. 
GOLDEN-TIPPED BAT. 
Kerivoula papuensis Dobson, Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., 
p. 339, June. Port Moresby, New Guinea. 
Queensland. 


Genus MINIOPTERUS Bonaparte, 1837. 
Miniopterus Bonaparte, Fauna Ital., fasc. xx-xxi. Type 
(fide Palmer), Vespertilio schreibersti Natterer. 


MINIOPTERUS BLEPOTIS Temminck, 1840. 
LARGE LONG-TAILED BAT. 
Vespertilio blepotis Temminck, Mon. Mamm., ii, p. 212, 
pl. 53, figs. 1-2. Java, etc. 
South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales. 


[MINIOPTERUS AUSTRALIS J'omes, 1858. 
SMALLEST MINIOPTERUS. 
Miniopteris australis Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1858, 
p. 125, May 13. Australia (Sir G. Grey). Error= 
Loyalty Islands (Lifu), New Caledonia. ] 


MINIOPTERUS ORIANZ Thomas, 1922. 
PALE OR NORTHERN LONG-TAILED BAT. 

Miniopterus oriane Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) x, 
p. 616, December 1. Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 
(Mrs. Oriana Wilson). 

North Australia. 


Family TAPHOZOIDAS. 
FREE-TAILED BATS. 
Genus TAPHOZOUS Geoffroy, 1818. 
Taphozous Geofiroy, Descr. de ?Egypte, ii, pp. 113, ge: 
Type, Taphozous perforatus Geoffroy. 


TAPHOZOUS AUSTRALIS Gould, 1854. 
GOULD’S FREE-TAILED BAT. 

Taphozous australis Gould, Mamm. Austr., pt. 6 (Vol. iii, 
pl. xxxii). Albany Island, Cape York, North Queens- 
land (Macgillivray). 

Taphozous fumosus De Vis, Ann. Queensland Mus., No. 6, 
p. 37 (reg’d. Austr. Mus., October 12, 1905). Gowrie 
Creek, Cardwell, North Queensland (Broadbent). 

North Queensland. 


TAPHOZOUS GEORGIANUS Thomas, 1915. 
LARGER FREE-TAILED BAT. 

Taphozous australis georgianus Thomas, Journ. Bombay Nat. 
Hist. Soc., xxiv, p. 62, September 30. King George’s 
Sound, Western Australia. 

West Australia, North Australia, South Queensland. 


100 


1841. 
1876. 


1867. 
1876. 
1884. 


1905. 


(a) 


1839. 
1884. 


(b) 
1924. 


1839. 


MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Genus SACCOLAIMUS Temminck, 1841. 
Saccolaimus Temminck, Mon. Mamm., ii, p. 277, ex Kuhl MS. 
Tautotype, Taphozous saccolaimus Temminck. 
Taphonycteris Dobson, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 548, 
April 1, 1876. Logotype, Taphozous saccolaimus Tem- 
mincek. 


SACCOLAIMUS FLAVIVENTRIS Peters, 1867. 
YELLOW BELLIED FREE-TAILED BAT. 
Laphozous flaviventris Peters, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1866, 
p. 430, April 25, 1867. Australia, ec Gould. 
Taphozous hargravei Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., i, 
p. 81, February. Near Bulli, New South Wales. 
Taphozous affinis var. insignis Leche, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1884, p. 51, text-fig. 4, June. South Australia. 
New South Wales, South Australia. 


SACCOLAIMUS NUDICLUNIATUS De Vis, 1905. 
DE VIS’S FREE-TAILED BAT. 

Taphozous nudicluniatus De Vis, Ann. Queensland Mus., 
No. 6, p. 39 (reg’d. Austr. Mus. October 12, 1905). 
Gowrie Creek, Cardwell, North Queensland (Broadbent). 

North Queensland. 


Family MOLOSSIDA. 


WRINKLED-LIPPED BATS. 
Genus AUSTRONOMUS nov. 


Type Nyctinomus australis atratus Thomas. 


AUSTRONOMUS AUSTRALIS Gray, 1839. 
BULLDOG BAT. 
Austronomus australis australis Gray, 1839. 
Molossus australis Gray, Mag. Zool. Bot., ii, p. 501, February. 
New South Wales (Major Macarthur). 
Nyctinomus albidus Leche, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1884, 
p. 58, text-fig. 3, June. South Australia. 
New South Wales, South Australia. 


Austronomus australis atratus Thomas, 1924. 

Nyctinomus australis atratus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(9) xiv, p. 456, October 1. Ooldea, South Australia 
(Wood Jones). 

West of South Australia. 


Genus MICRONOMUS nov. 
Type Molossus norfolkensis Gray. 
MICRONOMUS NORFOLKENSIS Gray, 1839. 
EASTERN MICRONOMUS. 
Molossus norfolkensis Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., iv, p. 7. 
September. Sydney, New South Wales (W. S. Macleay), 


1871. 


1866. 


1884. 


1874. 


1906. 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 101 


M eee wilcoxit Krefftt, Austr. Vertebrata, fossil and recent, 
. 4, nom. nud. Now South Wales and Queensland. 
New Pauli Wales, Queensland. 


MICRONOMUS PLANICEPS Peters, 1866. 
WESTERN MICRONOMUS. 

Nyctinomus planiceps Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Wiss. Akad. 
Berlin, 1866, p. 23, January (30). Australia (probably 
Sydney). Error—=West Australia. 

Nyctinomus petersi Leche, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1884, 
p. 49, text-fig. 1, June. South Australia. 

Western Australia, South Australia. 


Genus CHHREPHON Dobson, 1874. 
Cherephon Dobson, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, xlili, 2, p. 144. 
Haplotype, Nyctinomus johorensis Dobson. 


CH@HREPHON COLONICUS Thomas, 1906. 
PLICATED BAT. 
Nyctinomus plicatus colonicus Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.) 1906, p. 537, October. Alexandria, Northern 
Territory (Ww. Stalker). 


North Australia. 


Index to Generic and Specific Names. 


A 

Pace. 
abramus, PipISTRELLUS 96 
WSPERTIGION i gion cc 96 
acanthion, ECHIDNA 3 
ACANTHOMYS leucopus 74 
ACANTHONOTUS oe 2 
myrmecophagus 2 
ACROBATES ee beat Fike 21 
pygmeus 22 
ACULEATA Br 2 
aculeata, MyrMecoru AGA 2 
TACHYGLOSSUS ‘3 2 
acutorostrata, BALANOPTERA .. 58 
wolghywapsis, MOS oo Go eee i) 
adusta, PHASCOGALE 4 
AEPYPRYMNUS .. 37 
TUPESCENS. .. ... : 37 
affinis, GLOBIOCEPHALUS 64 
GRAMPUS 64 
PERAMELES 17 
PHASCOGALE .. 5 
agilis, HALMATURUS 47 
WALLABIA.. of.i5 47 
albanensis, HIppostpERos 93 
albicollis, OTARIA 89 
albidus, Ny CTINOMUS 100 
albipes, CONILURUS .. 82 
HAPALOTIS 82 
IPFASCOG ATEN | aoe wale: 10 
albipilis, LAGORCHESTES. . 41 
albirostris, Mus ae 78 

albocinereus, GYOMYS .. 7 
MGS 155%" 79 
albogularis, HETEROPUS . 42 
alboguttata, DIDELPHYS 13 
albus, MACROPUS.. 49 
alecandriw, MACROPUS 52 
alexis, NoToMys ra 84 
PADTAMA 25." 60 
alligatoris, Macropus 51 
AMBLOTIS See 34 
AMBLYCHILUS 69 
AMMOMYS 80 
AMPERTA .. . 4 8 
anatinus, ORN ITHORHY NCHUS il 
PLaTyPuS ; i 
angasti, PHASCOLOMYS ~ 34 
annulicauda, ONYCHOGALEA .. 41 
antarctica, BALE NOPTERA te OT 
PHYSALUS Roaches OS 
PAINT RVATENR esha. Suis stein Eis 15; 21 
ANTECHINOMYS AMEE. pound 
laniger cro Saereeenieks LD 
SPENCENY cole | stout hats 12 


ANTECHINUS = sicurthaanttes 
apicalis 
GSSUINIIS oa ee ee 
bellus La Ee 
CONCUNNUS Ht.i) 9 .sneeree 
ferruginifrons .. 
igompes.| i3. ae 
froggatti 4 
fuliginosus 
godmant : 
macdonnellensis 
maculatus .. 
mimulus ayeees 
DOO 9 5 poo 
minutissimus 
mooret 
niger 
rolandensis 
stuartii 
swainsoni 
unicolor : 
antilopinus, OSPHRANTER 
antipodum, BALANA 
AODON Ae es soia i 
apicalis, HApAaLoris 
HyPstPRYMNUS 
LEPORILLUS 
PHASCOGALE 
apodemoides, GYOMYS 
PsEUDOMYS .. 
aquilo, NotomMys 
arboricola, HAPALOTIS 
ARCTOCEPHALUS do77 iferus 
lobatus 
tasmanicus 
arenaria, PERAMELES 
argentatus, MACROPUS 
ARGOCETUS 
argurus, Mus 
LEZOMV Sins. i 
ariel, BELIDEA ‘ 
armillatus, PETAUROIDES 
arnhemensis, TRICHOSURUS 
ASCOBATES 
ASCOGALE saa 
IAS COPHARYNIX:s:). asthseiniet 
cervinus 
fuscus 
assimilis, ANTECHINUS 
IN OFS Gg 85.0) Pots 
PETROGALE 
PHASCOLOMYS 
RArrus .... es 
atratus, Nycrmomus. Oc 


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43 
43 


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104 MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 


attenuatus, PRODELPHINUS 
STENELLA 
STENO nae 
aurantiacus, Dorcorsis as 
aurantius, RHINOLOPHUS 
RHINONICTERIS 
auratus, PERAMELES 
aurescens, MACROPUS 
auritus, PERAMELES 
PsEUDOMYS 
australasie, CANIS 
MyoxXoIpEs 
australasianus, PHYSETER 
australasicus, Mus 
australic, CANIS 
australiensis, ECHIDNA 
MACLEAYIUS A 
australis, AUSTRONOMUS 
BAL} NOPTERA 
CAaTODON 
Ducgone 
EcHIDNA 
HALICORE 
MACROGLOSSUS. . 
MEGAPTERA 
MrESOPLODON 
MINIOPTERUS 
Motossvus 
Myotis 
ORCA 
OTARIA 
PETAURUS 
PsEUDOMYS 
ScoTroPHILUS 
SyCONYCTERIS 
TAPHOZOUS 
VESPERTILIO 
australius, MELOMYS 
austrinus, RATTUS 
AUSTRONOMUS .. 
australis 


B 


BALENA 
antipodum 
hectori 
lalandii 
marginata .. 
musculus 
physalus 

BAL NOPTERA 
acutorostrata 
antarctica 
australis 
huttonr 
musculus 
physalus 

Bavantia banksii 
convolutor . . 

balstoni, SCOTEINUS 


:. 100 


56 


58 
58 


25 


Banpicoot, LONGNOSED 
PIGFOOTED . 
RABBIT 
SHORTNOSED 

banfieldi, MzELomys 
Uromys i aa 

banksianus, Kancurus 
banksii, BALANTIA .. 
PHALANGISTA 

BARBASTELLUS 6 
noveehollandice .. 
pacificus f 

barrowensis, PERAMELES. 

bassianus, PSEUDOCHIRUS 
bassvi, PHASCOLOMYS 

Bat, BLACKISH-GREY 
BROAD-NOSED x 
Brown’s HorsSESHOE 
BULL-DOG 
FauseE VAMPIRE 


FAWN-COLOURED Horse- 


SHOE 
FREE-TAILED 
GOLDEN-TIPPED 
GREY’S 
HORSESHOE 
KREFFT’S .. 
LitTLe 
LoBE-LIPPED 
LONG-EARED 
LoONG-TAILED 
ORANGE HORSESHOE 
[ETD yi Ray ae 
PLICATED .. 
TUBE-NOSED 
YELLOW-BELLIED 
YELLOW-HEADED 

bedfordi, Macroprus 
THYLOGALE 
BELIDEA ariel .. 
BELIDEUS 
gracilis 
bella, PHASCOGALE 
BELUGA 5 
BENEDENIA 


bennettianus, DENDROLAGUS sik 


bennettii, MAcRoPUS 
bernardus, MACROPUS 

OsPHRANTER 
berniert, LAGORCHESTES 
BETTONGIA as 

campestris 

cuniculus .. 

gaimardi 

gouldii 

lesueur 

penicillata 

rufescens Bio 
BETTONGIOPS say a rae 
bicolor, DELPHINUS .. 

KANnGuRUS 

WALLABIA. . 


». shOd 
:. 100 


Pace. 
5) All 
Paz 
20 
ING 
86 
86 
49 
25 
26 
94 
94 
94 
17 
27 
34 
97 
98 
93 

100 
94 


93 
99 
99 
98 
92 
96 
95 
97 
94 
99 
93 
97 


91 


96 
47 
47 
25 
23 
24 

5 
62 
57 
39 
49 
52 
52 
40 
35 
39 
37 
36 
36 
37 
36 
37 
36 
67 
48 
48 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 


BapPNS a.) oo See, 
bifax, Ny CTOPHILUS. ei 
BiLBy cpa eee 
billardierii, Kanaurus é 

THYLOGALE Wie has 


binoé, HALMATURUS a 
BLACKFISH Creel. sbic 


TASMANIAN ce eeees 
blepotis, MINIOPTERUS .. 
WiSPHR TRGLON v1.) .) 


blight, PHASCOGALE nee 
blythi, PHASCOGALE ie 


bolami, PSEUDOMYS on 
Boors Pel Biel ii 
BorIoGALE Bi eae 


boryi, DELPHINUS .. s 
bougainville, PERAMELES 
bougainvillei, PHALANGISTA 
boweri, HAPALOTIS .. 
brachyotis, CONILURUS 
MAcROPUS. Benes 
PETROGALE bo 
brachytarsus, HALMATURUS 
brachyurus, KANGURUS 
fsuoltopsio-<. Shey 0) Bu eae 
bracteator, MACROPUS we 
breviaculeata, ECHIDNA 
brevicaudata, Cuscus cid 
{CHIDNA .. i 
HALMATURUS .. : 
breviceps, THYLACINUS .. 
PETAURUS Sieve 3 
PHYSETER a6 


brevirostris, ORNITHORHYNCHUS 


britta, DROMICIA 
brunneus, PLANIGALE 
PreRoPus 5 RR 
burrelli, PHASCOGALE 
Gurtont, Mus 65.0 bee 
byrnei, DASYUROIDES... 


Cc 


CACHALOT spent 
CONGANU MUUS fc hoe 3 
cerulescens, DELPHINUS 


(Cari ONBGe en Sat see tere 
CALLIGNATHULA Rua tare 
CALLIGNATHUS Be 
CALOPRYMNUS.. .. 
campestris bo 


calura, PHASCOGALE 
cambrica, MACROTIS.. 
campestris, BETTONGIA .. 
CALOPRYMNUS .. 
cancrivora, LOBODON 
canescens, PERADORCAS 
cangaru, MAcRoPuUS ere 
INIT Stee Sin reece y's 
angura, GIGANTOMYS 


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95 
20 
47 
47 
47 
64 
63 
99 
99 

8 

8 
78 
56 
52 
66 
19 
ol 
81 


canina, PHALANGISTA .. 
TRICHOSURUS} .. .. 
GAINTSiat nals 
australasia: 
australie .. .. 
CIRID So 35 
CAPEREA .. Paster te 
MROLGUCALA. 0 
novezealandie .. .. 
carcinophaga, LOBODON .. 
PHOCA Sheet Fis 
castaneus, Mus seesy be 
castanotis, CHBROPUS 
Can eNATIVE <5 (2: 


TIGER BES ar catte ¢ 
catalania, DELPHINUS 
TURSIOPS ie 
CALODON a.) 6 sich oreritonas 
GUSU GUIS a a eae ies 
krefftii SOIC Gace 


CATOPTERA yi 
caudimaculatus, Hapa ALOTIS 
UrRomys .. ne 
caudivolvula, DIpELPats 
caurinus, EPTESICUS 
Hypromys ae 
NovroryCTEs 
celeris, PETROGALE 
centralis, SMINTHOPSIS 
CaPHATioTEs? =<. “2. 
CERCAMRDUS =... (1. 
CERCARTETUS 
concinnus .. 
nNanus. - ane 
CERCOPTENUS 
cervinipes, MELOMYS 
VITUS eras ee 
cervinus, ASCOPHARYNX 
HAPALOTIS Fes 
HIPPOSIDEROS .. 
MACROPUS.. 
PSEUDOCHIRUS “Be 
RHINOLOPHUS a 
CETODIODON .. 
CETOPTERA i 
CETUS eee abegie Bas 
CHZNOCETUS .. .. 
CH#NODELPHINUS 
CH#REPHON .. ee FAs 
COLONLCIIS Eta es eis 
CH@ROPUS he 
castanotis .. 
ecaudatus .. 
occidentalis oe) 
CH#TOCERCUS.. .. 
cristicauda. . 
CHALINOLOBUS 
gouldii Pe 
morio eck 
picatus Peenente 
rogerst Bac 
signifer  .. 


LO6 MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


CHALINOLOBUS venatoris 
chathamiensis, EPIODON 
ZIPHIUS 
chionogaster, Eporys” 
chrysogaster, HyDROMYS 
cinerea, KOALA.. 
LIPpURUS 
NEOPHOCA 
OTARIA 
cinereus, PETAURIDES 
PHASCOLARCTOS 


clanculus, LAGENORHYNCHUS. . 


CLYMENE 

CLYMENIA 

CoeiIa Fane 

colletti, PSEUDOCHIRUS 
RatTrTus 

colonicus, CHEREPHON 
Nyorinomus 

conatus, RATTUS 

concinnus, ANTECHINUS .. 
CERCARTETUS 
DROMICIA .. 
PERADORCAS 
PETROGALE 

conditor, HAPALOTIS 
LEPORILLUS 
Mus 

CoNILURUS 
albipes 
brachyotis .. 
constructor 
destructor 
hemileucurus 
melibius 
pedunculatus 
penicillatus 


conspicillatus, Tee nee 


PTEROPUS 
constricta, SMINTHOPSIS 
constructor, CONILURUS 
convolutor, BALANTIA 
PHALANGISTA 
PSEUDOCHEIRUS 
cookii, PHALANGISTA 
coracius, RATTUS 
corenit, HALMATURUS 
THYLOGALE 
crassicaudata, PHAscooarT 
crassidens, PSEUDORCA 
crebescens, OSPHRANTER 
crispus, ORNITHORYNCHUS 
cristicauda, CHATOCERCUS 
DASYCERCUS 
cruciger, DELPHINUS 
culmorum, Mus. . 
RaTrus 4 
cuniculus, Ee waomera 
HyPpsIpRYMNUS 
cunninghami, PETAURUS.. 


25, 


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61 
61 
75 
69 
33 


Cuscus 
brevicaudatus 
maculatus 
ochropus 

cuvierit, PHALANGISTA 

CUVIERIUS 


cynocephala, Diperrars oh 


THYLACINUS 
CyPHOBALAINA 


DactyL4NA 
DACTYLOPSILA 
picata 
dedalus, NYcrorHitus 
dama, HALMATURUS 
darlingtoni, EpTEsicus 
DASYCERCUS 
blythi 
cristicauda. . 
DASYURINUS 
geoffrov 
DASYUROIDES .. 
byrnet 
pallidior 
DASYUROPS 
gracilis 
maculatus 
DasyuRuS 
exilis .. 
fortis 
geoffrow 
gracilis 
guttatus 
hallucatus .. 
lucocephalus 
macrourus 
maculatus 
mauget 
nesceus 
predator 
quoll .. 


delicatulus, LEGGADINA Be 


Mus 
DELPHINAPTERUS 
kingit 
DELPHINUS 
bicolor 
boryz 
ceerulescens 
catalania 
cruciger 
delphis 
densirostris 
fitzroyt 
forsteri 
fulvifasciatus 
globoceps 
kingit 
leucas 


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32 
32 
32 
31 
57 
15 
15 
57 


12 


15 


63 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 


DELPHINUS leucoramphus 
longirostris i 
melas .. ig 
noveezealandice be 
obscurus 
orca 
peronii 
roseiventris 
superciliosus 
ventricosus. . 

DELPHIS é ‘ 

delphis, DELPHINUS 

DENDRODORCOPSIS 
woodwardi 

DENDROLAGUS 
bennettianus 
fulvus.. 
lumholizi 


densirostris, DELPHIN' US 


Di1oPLODON 


derbianus, HALMATURUS 


DeERMIPUS A 
desertor, GYOMYS 
PsEUDOMYS : 
destructor, CONILURUS 
Devin, TASMANIAN 
DipEpuis alboguttata 
caudivolvula 
cynocephala 
giganteus 
kenguru 
lemurina 
macroura 
maculata 
novehollandice 
obesula 
penicillata 
peregrinus 
petaurus 
pygmea 
scvUurea 
tapouaru 
ursina 
viverrina 
volans 
voluccella 
vulpecula 
vulpina 
wombat 
Dinco 
dingo, CaNIs 
Diopon .. 
DiorPLopon 
densirostris 
Dirvus mitchellii 
muscola 
tridactylus 
dissimulatus, MACROPUS 
DoxLicHoDON 
traversii 
Dorin, Common 
BortLEe-NOSED 


‘62, 


Pace. 


67 


Dorcoprsis aurantiacus 
doriferus, ARCTOCEPHALUS 

GyYPSOPHOCA 
dorrece, LAGORCHESTES 
dorsalis, HALMATURUS 

WALLABIA.. 
DRAXIMENUS 
DRoMICIA .. 

britta .. 

concinna 

frontalis 

lepida. . 

unicolor 
DROMICIELLA 
DROMICIOLA 
DuGone Leora 

GUSUOAINS, oy h.. 
DuGonaiIpus 
Duceuneus 


E 


eboreus, MELOMYS 
eburacensis, TRICHOSURUS 
ecaudatus, CHAROPUS 
PERAMELES 
EcuHIDNA an 
acanthion .. 
australiensis 
australis 
breviaculeata 
brevicaudata 
hobartensis 
ineptus 
longiaculeata 
multiaculeatus .. 
novehollandice 
setosa 
sydneiensis 
TASMANIAN 
EcuInoprus 
ELECTRA ae 
elegans, MACROPUS 
WALLABIA. 
elseyit, PTEROPUS 
emilie, HALMATURUS 
Epimys chionogaster 
EPtTEsiIcus caurinus 
darlingtoni 
vulturnus . 


eracinius, ORNITHORHYNCHUS- 


eremiana, PERAMELES 
erubescens, MACROPUS 

OsSPHRANTER 
Escuricutius 
EUBALZNA 
EupDELPHINUS 

tasmaniensis 
EUDROMICIA 

lepida. . 

macrura 


68, 69 


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108 MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


eugenii, KANGURUS 
THYLOGALE 
EUPHROSYNE 
EUPHYSETES 
grayt 
macleayt 
potist .. 
Euro 
exilis, Dasyurus 
GRAMPIDELPHIS 
Uromys 


it 


FABRICIA .. ‘ 
fasciatus, Kancunus 

LAGOSTROPHUS. . 

PERAMELES 
felina, PHALANGISTA 
ferculinus, Mus 

THETOMYS 
ferruginifrons, ANTECHINUS 
fieldi, LEGGADINA 

Mus 
Finpack 
FINNER 2 
fitzroyt, DELPHINUS 

LAGENORHYNCHUS .. 
flavipes, ANTECHINUS 

PHASCOGALE 
flaviventer, PeraAuRUS 
flaviventris, SAccoLAIMUS 

TAPHOZOUS F 
jlindersii, PHASCOLARCTOS 

THYLOGALE 
floweri, MESOPLODON 
FLowERIvUs 
Fryine Fox tik 
formosus, HypsipryMNUS | 
forrestt, LEGGADINA. . 

Mus : 
forsteri, DELPHINUS 
fortis, Dasyurus 
fossor, WoMBATUS 
frenatus, MacRopUS 

ONYCHOGALEA 
FRETIDELPHIS .. 

roseiventris 
froggatti, ANTECHINUS 
frontalis, DROMICIA 
Fruit Bat, Piamy .. 
fruticus, MAcRorus 
fuliginosus, ANTECHINUS 

Hypromys 

KANGURUS 

MACROPUS.. 

PHALANGISTA 
fulvifasciatus, DELPHINUS 
Sulvogaster, HyDROMYS 
Sulvolavatus, HyDROMYS 
Sulvoventer, HyDROMIS 


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46 
65 
59 
59 
59 
59 
51 
13 
64 
85 


fulvus, DENDROLAGUS 
fumosus, TAPHOZOUS 
Suscipes, Mus 
Ratrus 
Susciventer, PERAMELES 
fuscus, ASCOPHARYNX 
Mus ; 
ORNITHORINCUS 
PHASCOLARCTOS 
PHASCOLOMYS 


G 


gadamu, Sousa.. 
STENO 

gaimardi, Kancurus. 

gazella, HALMATURUS 

geayi, NycTorHILUS 

GELASINUS 

geoffroii, DasyurInus 
Dasyurvus 


geoffroyt, NycToPHILUS 
georgianus, TAPHOZOUS .. 


GERBOIDES 
giganteus, DIDELPHYS 
JACULUS 
JERBOA 
MACROPUS. . ‘ 
gigantia, GIGANTOMYS 
GIGANTOMYS 
cangura 
gigantia 
gigas, KANGUROO 
MACRODERMA 
MEGADERMA 
gilbertiz, HyPsiPRyMNUS. 
Pororovus ‘ 
gillespiei, PHASCOLOMYS | 
WoOMBATULA 
GLADIATOR 
gladiator, ORCA 
glaucus, GYOMYS 
PsEUDOMYS 
glauerti, RATTUS 
GLIDER, Piemy 
SQUIRREL .. 
SuGaRr 
GLISCHROPUS 
tasmaniensis 
GLOBICEPHALUS 
affinis. . 
ventricosus. . 
GLOBICEPS x 
globiceps, DELPHINUS 
godmani, PETROGALE 
PHASCOGALE 
gouldii, BETTONGIA 
_ CHALINOLOBUS 
HaAPatoris 
M®&SEMBRIOMYS 
Mus 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 


gouldii, NyCTOPHILUS 
PrEROPUS 
ScoroPpHILus 
THETOMYS 
gracilicaudatus, Mus | 
THETOMYS 
gractlis, DASYUROPS 
DasyvURUS 
MACROPUS.. 
grait, HyPSIPRYMNUS 
GRAMPIDELPHIS 
exilas .. 
GRAMPUS 
affinis.. 
orca . ee 
GRAMPUS- DotPus ed 
grandis, MACROTIS i 
granulipes, SMINTHOPSIS. . 
grayi, EUPHYSETES 
MESOPLODON 
PHYSALUS 
GrayIus | ; 
greyii, MACROPUS 
MUST. 
PsEUDOMYS 
Rattus 
SCOTEINUS 
ScoroPHILusS 
WALLABIA.. 
griseus, KANGURUS .. 
PHALANGISTA 
griseoceruleus, Mus 
griseofuscus, HALMATURUS 
griseolanosus, KANGURUS 
griseorufus, HALMATURUS 
Gupamu a0 
gunnit, PERAMELES 
guntheri, MESOPLODON 
guttatus, DASYURUS 
GyYMNOBELIDEUS 
leadbeateri 
GyYMNOMYS “ 
gymnotis, LAGoRCcHESTus 
Gyomys 
albocinereus 
apodemoides 
desertor 
glaucus “se 
novehollandie 
GYPSOPHOCA 
dorifera 
tasmanica 
tropicalis 


H 


haasti, MESOPLODON 
hacketti, PETROGALE 
hagenbecki, Macropus 
HALiBALZANA 


HALIcORE 

australis 4 
hallucatus, DasvuRUS 

SATANELLUS 
HALMATOPUS 
HaALMATURUS 

agilis .. 

binoé 

brachytarsus 

brevicaudatus 

coxenvi 

dama .. ‘ 

derbianus .. 

dorsalis 

emilice 

gazella 

griseofuscus 

griseorufus 

houtmanni 

rma 

jardinit 

kingit 

leptonyx 

lessonii 

mastersit 

nemoralis .. 

nuchalis 

obscurior 

pallida 

rutilans 

rutilus 

striatus 

tasmanet 

temporalis . . 

thetis 

wilcoxis 
HAPALOTIS 

albipes 

apicalis 

arboricola .. 

bowers ve 

caudimaculata .. 

cervinus 

conditor 

gouldit 

hemileucura 

longicaudata 

macrotis 

macrurus 

melanura 

mitchellit 

MuUrinus 

personata . 

richardsondi 
Hare WALLABY 
hargravei, TAPHOZOUS 
HARPYIA 
harrisit, eee) 

UrRsInus 5 
harveyi, PERAMELES 
hectori, BALENA 


‘81, 84 


110 MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


HEMIBELIDEUS.. 
lemuroides 

hemileucura, CONILURUS 
HAPALOTIS 

HEPOONA : 

hepoonaroo, PETAURUS 

herbertensis, PHALANGISTA 
PSEUDOCHEIRUS 

herberti, PETROGALE 


re a LEGGADINA 


Mus 
HETEROPUS 
albogularis. . 
higginsi, Mus 
PsEUDOMYS 
hillieri, PHASCOGALE 
HIPPOSIDEROS .. 
albanensis 
cervinus 
semoni 
stenotis 6 
hirsutus, LAGORCHESTES- 
Mus oe 
OpossuM 
VoMBATUS E 
hirtipes, SMINTHOPSIS 
hobartensis, ECHIDNA 
homei, PHocA 
Honry Possum . 
houtmanni, HALMATURUS 
hovellii, Mus 
HuMmMpPBAck 
hunteri, HyYypsiprymMnvs — 
HuNTERUS 
huttoni, BALANOPTERA 
Hypromys 
caurinus 
chrysogaster 
fuliginosus 
fulvogaster 
fulvolavatus 
fulvoventer 
leucogaster 


longmani oo MMi 


lutrilla Beds res lane 
melicertes 
regine 
HyDRURGA 
leptonyx 
HyPEROODON 
planifrons 
Hypopon .. 


hypoleucus, PHALANGISTA 


HYPSIPRYMNODON .. 
moschatus .. 
HyPSIPRYMNUS 
apicalis 
cuniculus .. 
formosus 
gilbertit 
gravw .. 
hunteri 


HYPSIPRYMNUS lesueur .. 
melanotis 
micropus 
myosurus 
ogilbyt 
peron 
phillippi 
platyops 
setosus 
white 
hystria, ORNITHORHYNCHUS 


I 


ignifer, RHINOLOPHUS 
incana, PETAUROIDES 

PHALANGISTA 
incanens, PSEUDOCHIRUS 
indutus, MESEMBRIOMYS. . 
ineptus, TACHYGLOSSUS 
influatus, SCOTEINUS 
ingrami, MAcRoPuUS 

PHASCOGALE 
inornata, PETROGALE 
insignis, TAPHOZOUS 
insule, MELOMYS 
interjecta, MACROTIS 
irma, HALMATURUS 

WALLABIA. 2 5 
isabellinus, OSPHRANTER| 
IsoopoNn 

auratus 

barrowensis 

MAaCTOUrUuS 

muser 

nauticus 

obesulus 

peninsule .. 

torosus 


J 


JACULUS giganteus .. 
jardinii, HALMATURUS 
JERBOA gigantea 
JERBOA-MARSUPIAL. . 
johnstonii, PHALANGISTA 
jonesi, LEPORILLUS .. 


K 


KaLMATURUS a 
KanGaroo, Buack- FACED 
CAPTAIN CooxK’s 
GREY a 
TRB) | o6 atts 

KaANGAROO-MOUSE 
kangaru, ZERBUA 
KANGUROO 
gigas 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 


KANGURUS 
banksianus 
bicolor 
fasciatus 
fuliginosus 
gaimardi 
griseolanosus 
griseus 
labiatus 
laniger 
lanosus 
lepturus 
penicillatus 
ruficollis 
rufogriseus 
rufus .. 
ualabatus .. 
vinosus 
KaoLa % 
kenguru, DibeLpHis 
KERIVOULA papuensis 
KILLER a 
FALSE 
kingii, HALMATURUS | 
DELPRINAPTERUS 
DELPBINUS 
Koata 
cinerea 
koala .. 
subiens 
Koaia 
breviceps 
krefftii, CATODON 
VESPERUGO 
KyPHOBAL.ENA 


L 


labiatus, KANGURUS 


levis, ORNITHORYNCHUS. . 


LaGENOCETUS ay 
LaGENORHYNCHUS .. 
clanculus 
fitzroyi 
latifrons 
obscurus 
LAGOCHELES 4 
lagochilus, Macrociossus 
ODONTONYCTERIS 
LaGORCHESTES 
albipilis 
bernieri 
conspicillatus 
dorree 
gymnotis 
harsutus 
leichardti 
leporides 
pallidior 
LaGostTRoPHUS.. 
fasciatus 


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52 

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lagotis, MACROTIS 
PERAMELES 
lalandii, BALANA a 
laniger, ANTECHINOMYS .. 
KancGurus 
lanigera, PHASCOGALE 
lanigerus, MACROPUS 
laniginosa, PHALANGISTA 
PsEUDOCHEIRUS 
lanosus, KANGURUS 
Laomys sa 
pedunculatus 
woodwardi a 
larapinta, SMINTHOPSIS .. 
LASIORHINUS 
latifrons 
m’coyt an 
lasiorhinus, PHASCOLOMYS 
lateralis, PETROGALE 


latifrons, LAGENORHYNCHUS .. 


LASIORHINUS 

PHASCOLOMYS 
latirostris, PHYSALUS 
lawson, PERAMELES 
layardii, MESOPLODON 

ZIPHIUS 
leachi, NYcropHinus | 
leadbeateri, GYMNOBELIDEUS 
LEGGADINA ge oa 

delicatula .. 

fieldi .. 

forresti 

hermannsburgensis 

messoria 

patria. . 

waiter 5 
leichardti, LAGORCHESTES | 
LEIOBALZNA 3 
lemurina, DIDELPHIS 
lemuroides, HEMIBELIDEUS 

PHALANGISTA 
lentiginosa, SousA 

STENO oe 
leopardina, PHoca 
lepida, DROMICIA 

EUDROMICIA 
leporides, MACROPUS 
LEPORILLUS 

apicalis 

conditor 

jonesi c 
LErPTONYCHOTES 

weddellat 
LEepTonyx ‘ 
leptonyx, HALMATURUS 

HypDRURGA 

PHOCA ° 
lepturus, Kanourus 
lessoniit, HALMATURUS 
lesueur, BETTONGIA 

HypsiPpRYMNUS 
Lrucas 


112 MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


leucas, DELPHINUS .. 

leucogaster, HyDROMYS 
PETAURUS 
PHASCOGALE 


leucogenys, PETAURISTA .. 


LEUCOPLEURUS 
leucopus, ACANTHOMYS 
Mus 
PHASCOGALE 
Rattus 


leucoramphus, DELPHINUS 


LEUCORHAMPHUS 
leucura, MACROTIS 
PERAGALE 
lineolatus, Mus 
Lipvurus 
cinereus 
Liscurus 
LisSODELPHIS 
perontt eee 
littoralis, MELOMYs .. 
Uromys 


lobatus, ARCTOCEPHALUS 


LoBopoNn 
cancrivora 
carcinophaga . 
longiaculeata, ECHIDNA 
longicauda, PETROGALE 
longicaudata, HAPALOTIS 
Noromys 
SMINTHOPSIS 
longipilis, Mus 
longirostra, PLATYPUS 


longirostris, DELPHINUS .. 


MESOPLODON 

STENELLA y 
longmani, HyDRomMysS 

PETROGALE 


lucocephalus, DASYURUS 


lumholtzi, DENDROLAGUS 
lunatus, MACROPUS .. 
ONYCHOGALEA 
lutreola, Mus 
Rarrus BS 
lutrilla, HypRomMys 
Lycaon 


M 


MACLEAYANUS 
macleayi, EUPHYSETES 
MACLEAYIUS 
australiensis 
MACRODERMA e 
gigas 56. Ne 


MacroGtLossus australis 


lagochilus 
minimus 
nanus 
pygmeus 


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76 


MAcRopws.. 
albus 
alexandrice 


alligatoris .. 
argentatus .. 


aurescens 
bedford 
bennetti 


bernardus .. 
brachyotis .. 
bracteator .. 


cervinus 


dissimulatus 


elegans 


erubescens .. 


frenatus 
fruticus 
giganteus 
gracilis 
grey =. 
hagenbecki 
ingrami 
lanigerus 
leporides 
lunatus 
magnus 
major 


manicatus .. 


melanops 


nigrescens .. 
occidentalis 
ocydromus .. 


pallidus 
parma 
parry 
pictus 
regine 
robustus 
rubens 
ruber 
rufiventer 


tasmaniensis 


unquifer 
welsbyt 
woodwardi 
macropus, Mus 
Myotis 
Notomys 


VESPERTILIO 
MACRORHINUS .. 
proboscideus 


MACROTIS .. 
cambrica 
grandis 
lagotis 
leucura 
minor 


macrotis, HAPALOTIS 


Noromys 


macrourus, DASYURUS 


DIDELPHIS 


PERAMELES 


‘Al, ! 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 


macrurus, EUDROMICIA 
HAPALOTIS 
MESEMBRIOMYS 
PopABRUS.. i 
maculatus, ANTECHINUS .. 
Cuscus 
DasyuURUS 
DIDELPHIS 
VIVERRA 
magnus, MACROPUS 
major, MACROPUS 
NycCTOPHILUS 
PERAMELES 
manicatus, MACROPUS 
Mus 
Ratrus 
marginata, BALENA 
CAPEREA 
Maru 
LITTLE 
MarsupiaL ANT EATER . 
MoLE 


MovussE, YELLow- ROOTED 


FLAT-SKULLED 
CREST-TAILED .. 
FAv-TAILED 
TIGER 
WoOLF.. 
MASTACOMYS 
fuscus 
mordicus ie 
mastersii, HALMATURUS 
mauget, DASYURUS 
maximus, PETAURUS 
m‘coyi, LASIORHINUS 
MEGADERMA gigas 
MEGALEIA ; 
rufa 
megalotis, Noromys 
MEGANEURON .. . 
megaphyllus, RHINOLOPHUS 
RHINOPHYLLOTIS 
MEGAPTERA 
australis ae 
novezealandie .. 
MEGAPTERON 
MEGISTOSAURUS 
melanops, MACROPUS 
melanotis, HyPSIPRYMNUS 
melanura, HAPALOTIS 
PHALANGISTA 
melas, DELPHINUS 
melibius, CONILURUS 
melicertes, HyDROMYS 
melicus, MELOMYS 
Uromys 
MELOMYS 
australius 
banfieldi 
cervinipes 
eboreus 
insule 


Pace. 
23 
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Metomys littoralis .. 

melicus 

murinus 

pallidus 

rubicola ee 
melvilleus, RATTUS .. 
meridionalis, ORCA 
MESEMBRIOMYS 

gouldiz 

MacruUurus 

rattoides 
Mesop1opoN 
MzEsoPpLoDON 

australis 

floweri 

grayi 

guntheri 

haasti 

layardii 

longirostris 

pacificus 

thomsoni 
mMessorius, LEGGADINA 

PsEUDOMYS 
mesurus, TRICHOSURUS 
microdon, SCOTOPHILUS .. 
Micronomus 

norfolkensis 

planiceps 
Micropia or 
micropus, HypsipRyMn us 
mimetes, PHASCOGALE 
mimulus, PHASCOGALE 

PsEUDOMYS 
minimus, ANTECHINUS 

DasyuRUS ; 

MACROGLOSSUS. . 

Pororovus 
MINIOPTERUS 

australis 

blepotis 

oriane . . 
minnie, PsEupoMys 
minor, MACROPUS 

MacrotTis .. 

PERAGALE 

PETAURISTA " 
minutissimus, ANTECHINUS 
minutus, PODABRUS. 
MrrounGa 
miselius, ‘THALACOMYS 
mitchellit, Dieus 

HAPALOTIS 

Noromys 

PHASCOLOMYS 

PopasRrvus. ‘ 
modestus, PsEubocuirus 
Motossvs australis 

norfolkensis 

wilcoxit . 
monastria, PERADORCAS . 
mondraineus, RATTUS 


114 MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


mongan, PSEUDOCHIRUS 
moorei, ANTECHINUS 
mordax, NOTOMYS 


mordicus, MASTACOMYS .. 


morio, CHALINOLOBUS 

ScorToPHILUS 
MorRopDActyLus 
MoRUNGA 


moschatus, HypstpRYMNODON 


Mouse, NATIVE 


multiaculeata, EcuIDNA 


murina, DIDELPHIS 
HaAPpaLortis 
MELOMYS .. 
PHASCOGALE 
SMINTHOPSIS 
UrRomys 

murrayt, RATTUS 

Mus adelaidensis 
albirostris 
albocinereus 
argurus 
assimilis 
australasicus 
burtoni 
cenguru 
cangaru 
castaneus 
cervinipes 
conditor 
culmorum .. 
delicatulus 
ferculinus 
fieldi .. 
forresti 
fuscipes 
fuscus 
gouldit 
gracilicaudatus 
greywi aa 
griseoceruleus .. 
hermannsburgensis 
higginsi MS 
hirsutus 
hovellit 
leucopus 3 
lineolatus .. 
longipilis 
lutreola 
macropus .. 
manicatus .. 
nanus . ae 
novechollandice 
pachyurus 
patrius 
penicillatus 
petterdt 
platurus 
shortridget 
simsoni 
sordidus 
squalorum .. 


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Mus subrufus 
tamarensis 
tasmaniensis 
terreereginee 
tetragonurus 
tompsoni 
tunneyti 
variabilis 
vellerosus 
velutinus 
villosissimus 
woodwardi 

muscola, DIpus.. 

musculus, BALANA 
BALE NOPTERA 


MusteELa novehollandie is 


quoll .. WR css 
myoides, XEROMYS 
Myorvraius 


myosurus, HypstpryMnvs 


PERAMELES 
Myotis 

australis 

macropus 


Myoxo1pEs australasie .. 


MyRMECOBIUS .. 
diemenensis 
fasciatus 
rufus .. 


age 


myrmecophagus, ACANTHONOTUS 2 


MysticetTus 


IN 


nanus, CERCARTETUS 
MACROGLOSSUS. . 
Mus 
ODONTONYCTERIS 
PHALANGISTA 
THETOMYS 
NASIRA 
nasuta, PERAMErns 
nauticus, ISooDON 
neillii, PHALANGISTA 
nemoralis, HALMATURUS 
NEOBALZ]NA 
NEOORCA .. 
NEOPHOCA 
cinerea 
NEORYCTES 
NEOZIPHIUS as 
nesceeus, DASYURUS .. 
niger, ANTECHINUS .. 
PETAURUS 
PHASCOLOMYS 
VOLUCELLA 
nigrans, TRICHOSURUS 
nigrescens, MACROPUS 
nigripes, THALACOMYS 


nigrogriseus, ScoroPHiLu: S 


nitela, SMINTHOPSIS 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 


Nopvs 
norfolcensis, PETAURUS 
Scrorus 3 
norfolkensis, Micronomus 
Motossvus 
notatus, PETAURUS 
notialis, PSEUDOCHIRUS . 
notina, PERAMELES 
Novrocronus 
Noromys 
alexis 
aquilo. . 
longicaudatus 
Macropus 
macrotis 
megalotis 
mitchellit 
mordax 
richardsoni 
sturti .. 
NotToRyCTES 
caurinus 


typhlops 


noveehollandice, Baers 


DIDELPHIS 

EcHIDNA 

GYOmys 

Mus 

MUSTELA .. 

Scrurus 

Ursus : 
novezealandie, CAPEREA 

DELPHINUS 

MEGAPTERA 

ZIPHIUS 
nuchalis, HaLMaTuRUS 
nudicaudata, PHALANGISTA 

PLEOPUS 

SPILOCUSCUS é 
nudicluniatus, SACCOLAIMUS 

TaPHOZOUS 
NuUMBAT 5 
NYcTICEJUS ruppellié 
NyYcTIMENE rer 

papuanus 

robinsoni 

tryoni : 
Nyctrnomus albidus 

atratus 

colonicus 

petersi 

planiceps 

plicatus 
NycCTOPHILUS 

bifax 

deedalus 

geayt 

geoffroyt 

gouldi. . 

leachit 

major 

pallescens 


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NYCTOPHILUS sherrini 
timoriensis. . 
unicolor 
walker 


O 


obesula, DIDELPHIS .. 
IsooDON 


obscurior, HALMATURUS .. 


obscurus, DELPHINUS 


LAGENORHYNCHUS .. 


ochropus, Cuscus 


occidentalis, CHAXROPUS .. 


MAcRoPUS.. 3 
ocydromus, MACROPUS 
ODOBENUS 
ODONTONYCTERIS 

nanus. 

pygmeus 


ogilbyi, HyPstpRyMNUS 


OGMOBALZINA .. 
OGMORHINUS 
ONYCHOGALEA 
annulicauda 
frenata 
lunata 
unguifer 
OPHYSIA 
OpossuM 
hirsutum ke 
oppossum, PETAURUS 
oralis, PSEUDOCHIRUS 
PSEUDOMYS 
ORcA ae 
australis 
gladiator 
meridionalis 
pacifica 
tasmanica .. 
orca, DELPHINUS 
GRAMPUS .. 
ORCINUS Be 
oriane, MINIOPrEeRUS 
ORNITHORHYNCHUS 
brevirostris 
crispus 
eracinius 
fuscus 
hystrix 
levis 
paradoxus 
phoxinus 
TUfUs .. 
triton .. 
OsPHRANTER 
antilopinus 
bernardus 
crebescens 
erubescens .. 
isabellinus 


‘60, 


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COR RK NRF RE NRE NNe eH 


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116 MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


PaGeE. 

OsPHRANTER regine soe 
robustus 5 52 
Orartia albicollis 88 
australis 88 
cinerea 88 
peront 88 
weddelliz 88 
OULODON 61 

i 

pachyurus, Mus ‘ 75 
pacificus, BARBASTELLUS 94 
MESOPLODON 62 
ORcA 63 
PADEMELON . é 45 
pallescens, N YCTOPHILUS. 94 
PERAMELES ae 18 
pallidior, DASYUROIDES .. 9 
LAGORCHESTES 40 
pallidus, HALMATURUS 50 
MACROPUS.. 53 
MELoMys .. .. 86 
papuanus, NYCTIMENE 91 
papuensis, KERIVOULA 99 
PHONISCUS 99 
PAaRACYON 1155 
paradoxus, ORNITHORHYNCHUS 1 
PARAGALIA 19 
parma, MACROPUS 46 
THYLOGALE 46 
parryi, Macrorus 50 
PAaTOROO cas 6 38 
patrius, LEGGADINA 78 
Mus 78 
pearsont, PETROGALE| 45 
pedunculatus, CONILURUS 80 
Laomys 80 
penicillata, BETTONGIA 36 
CoNILURUS 82 
DIDELPHIS wi 
KANGURUS 42 
Mus 82 
PETROGALE 42 
peninsule, IsooDON 17 
PERACYON 15 
PERADORCAS 41 
canescens 42 
concinna 42 
monastria .. 42 
PERAGALE 19 
leucura 21 
minor 20 
PERALOPEX 15 
PERAMELES 18 
affinis. . 17 
GTENATIG et 19 
auratus 17 
auritus 18 
barrowensis ila 
bougainville 19 


PERAMELES ecaudatus 
eremiana 
fasciata 
fusciventer 
gunnit 
harveyi 
lagotis 
lawson 
macroura 
major 
myosura 
nasuta 
notina 
pallescens 
torosus 
tucker 

peregrinus, DIDELPHIS 

peronii, DELPHINUS. 
HypstpryMNvs | 
LISSODELPHIS .. 
OTARIA 
PETAURUS 

PERQUALUS B 

personata, HAPALoTIs 

PETAUROIDES 
armillatus .. 
cinereus 
incanus 

PETAURISTA 
leucogenys 
minor 

PETAURULA 

PETAURUS 
australis 
breviceps 
cunninghami 
didelphoides 
flaviventer .. 
hepoonaroo 
leucogaster 
maximus 
niger 
norfolcensis 
notatus 
oppossum .. 
peronit 
reginee 
taguanoides 

petaurus, DIDELPHIS 

petersi, NYCTINOMUS 

PETROGALE 
assimilis 
brachyotis 
celeris. . 
concinna .. 
godmani 
hackettt 
herbertv 
wmornata 
lateralis. 
longicauda 
longmani 


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CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 


PETROGALE pearsoni 


puella. . 


purpureicollis 


rothschildi 
signata 
venustula 
wilkinsi 


xanthopus . . 
PETROPSEUDES. . 


dahli 


PETRORHYNCHUS 


petterdi, Mus 
PHALACOMYS 


PHALANGISTA archeri. D 


bougainvillei 
canina 
convolutor .. 
cookii 
cuviert 
felina 
Suliginosa 
gliriformis 
grisea 
herbertensis 
hypoleucus. . 
incana 
johnstonii 
lemuroides 
melanura 
nana 

neillit 
nudicaudata 
selma .. 
viverrina 
axanthopus .. 
wanthopygus 


PHASCOGALE 


adusta 
affinis.. 
albipes 
apicalis 
bella oo 
blighi ea 
blythi 
burrelli 
calura 
crassicaudata 
flavipes 
godmani 
hillieri 
ingrami 
lanigera 
leucogaster 
leucopus 


macdonnellensis 


mimetes 
mimulus 
murina 
pirata 
rufogaster 
sinualis 
subtilissima 


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PHASCOGALE swainsoni .. 
tapoatafa 
virginice 

PHASCOLAGUS 

PHASCOLARCTOS 
adustus 
cinereus 
Sflindersii 
fuscus 

PHASCOLOICTIS 

PHASCOLOMIS 
angasii 
assimilis 
bassii 
fuscus 
gillespier 
lasiorhinus 
latifrons 
mitchellii 
niger ; 
platyrhinus 
setosus 
tasmaniensis 

phillippi, HypsipryMNvs 

PHOCA carcinophaga 
homei oo 
leopardina 
leptonyx 
proboscidea 

PHONISCUS 
papuensis .. 


phoxinus, ORNITHORHYN CHUS 


PHYLASUS 
PHYSALUS F 
antarcticus. . 
grayt 
latirostris .. 
sibbaldi 
physalus, BALENA 
BAL NOPTERA 
PHYSETER fe 
australasians us 
breviceps 
polycyphus 
PHYSETERUS 
PHYSORHINUS .. . bs 
picatus, CHALINOLOBUS hs 
DactTyLopPsiLa 
ScoToPHILUS 
pictus, MACROPUS 
Piamy GLIDER 
PirIsTRELLUS 
abramus 
regulus 
ptrata, PHASCOGALE 
planiceps, MICRONOMUS .. 
NyYcTINOMUS ay: 
planifrons, HyPEROODON 
PLANIGALE eal 
brunneus 
ingrami 
subtilissima 


118 MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


: Paae. Paae. 
PLANIGALE lenuirostris yf PSEUDOCHEIRUS occidentalis .. 27 
platurus, Mus Ss emer) oralis — Sieve pete: Re aS 
platyops, Hyrsrpryvmnus . .. 39 peregrinus eae Gee 20 

Pororovus SPR RESO pulcher .. .. .. «. 26 
PLATYPUS Os Re ea 1 DICLOTU aa ee eae maser 6 
TC AUUNVUS | ia ha oh ] PsEUDOCHIROP & iy eae 28 
longirostra 8 a : archeri RN a elie Git 28 
latyrhinus, PHASCOLOMYS .. 34 ee SON us emma 
p y 68 Gpodemoides! hanes arnt) 
eS Son ae et Ne ie Rr er art oa oer eG 
PLEOPUS : ger aera we (PUTTS ase co. ao ee, VO 
nudicaudatus eee OO) bolami os Nr SETS 
plicatus, NyctInomus .. .. 101 SSO ee EE EE REES Fs 
RODABRUS() 5..cen er ono ak 9 glaucus ick <n GA ARI Mertah s g e) 
UCC TUT US may a cee ae oct ge 9 greyti i, tie ea Maegan 7G) 
MMOS 8S Sas od eae G RIGGS) ej oo emene TC 
mitchellii cic. tebe eran mt oot WIESEOHUNS 5 es 2 
PODANOMALUS EIN hss Ok Winton a. eee 8 
ACH CMLO PHO WA rr .e aired: 0 ayn OO minnie Seaucmmieeeee eye et r/(43 
PokSCOPIA 3 Mae TOS oralis Lop Nee a Anarene seth 
poliocephalus, Preropus Bee 190) OT OCONMIS: ... . : waekeahieeee Til 
polycyphus, PHYSETER ..  .. 59 palo? Gens 5 oo ae 
Possum, BRUSH-TATLED See Ohl) shortridgei cas per ae nae TT) 
Tsloyspaye 9 5 Ss gen 2 waitei eeeenoN nc tity sanr(() 
LEADBEATER’S Domo 23) PSEUDOROA 0) Aa ae 66 
Piemy G0 Neb Se oy ooam 4 ChASRIGCTS 4. aaeeeeGD 
SCALY-TAILED Yon come oe PSTLOGRAMNTURUS -. jac nas . 30 
SHUGIOSIOID) Gy ph ag ae 2A) PRON OS hs oo! oi ols sae ee oO) 
Possum - GLIDER, YELLOW - PTEROBALANA .oriaeudanee ec Oil 
BELLIED Big Prob o orre 2k PrEROPUS EA Aap ah oe aaa geen O) 
(CuroyNmisin og eae fa og e 2U) brunneus Pe idias 2. er pe 10) 
IP OLOR OOM psn ias a itt ® caus igou conspicillatus .. .. .. 91 
PoToOROOPS I) donee Tat pag eae) elseyti dik Sey he Meee SO! 
PotoRovus Ate et Cae bie Seogieg eek geal gouldii iin’ ¢/ academe aunene? x OUt 
TOROS oe 3 ee Sa aE poliocephalis ..  .. =. 90 
rufus Rae i. on sok es 38 scapulatus ais Sis arate i 
tridactylus aie OS Prinorus BARONE aera OO 
potoru, DIDELPHIS .. .. .. 38 PInCHOCE TUS). | State OO) 
pottsi, KUPHYSETES hema sae IS) puella, PETROGALE Meteo Ae 
preconis, PSEUDOMYS .. .. 177 pulcher, PSEUDOCHIRUS Ree 26) 
THETOMYS ee aati We VAd) pumilus, SCOTOPHILUS ..  .. 95 
predator, DASyURUS Sot ee a VESPADELUS .. . © 5) 
proboscideus, MACROHINUS .. 88 purpureicollis, Phineas ee 2 AS 
PHoca  .. .. 88 pygmeus, Macroatossus .. 92 
PRODELPHINUS aitenuatus: oh vO ODONTONYCTERIS .. .. 92 
FEROPOUSUS, WINANS 6 55 eg 3} 
psammophila, SMINTHOPSIS 10 Q 
PSAMMORYCTES dioerrenumalser aaa (6) 
UyPIO DE Te ieee LO @uoKaca ee a a eas 
PSEUDOCHETRUS! | <eiqiye) | sels) quoll, ierunus |-.4 jue ie 
ODSSLANUSH o.oo) teem ie kei aga PONT MSIINEA... 5° Jah acuniegeen ee 
CORUUIUS aos aera eta S) 
colletti Seal oy ase’ Dae dala tees Uae 
CONVOIULOL <r eek eae seen R 
dahli bis OUNCES ORES. 
herbertensis See Seg ths 2 Olu RABEITBANDICOOM: ..ahpueau 120) 
incanens .. dm .. .. 26 UAB BITIVAT <2) Cah nee Si 
laniginosus SNe es Cac te 0) AUATAOAME TOD! : ec 3 onan ie 
HUTS “so a5 CPS WG BLACK Be eheheuaste: 
NOU GOT Ae shar scatereauegeahs | Lh Broap- TOOTHED Shan: 60) 


notialis Si aR CLOG HOUSE-BUILDING .. .. 81 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 


Rat, SCALE-TAILED 

Swamp 

THICK -TAILED 

WATER 
Rat-KANGAROO 
RAtT-MARSUPIAL =! 
rattoides, MESEMBRIOMYS 
Ratrus 

assimilis 

austrinus 

colletts 

conatus 

coracius 

culmorum 

fuscipes 

glauerti 

greyw 

leucopus 

lutreolus 

manicatus .. 

melvilleus 

mondraineus 

murray? 

profusus 

rattus 

sordidus 

tunneyi 

vallesius 

vellerosus 

velutinus 

villosissimus 

woodwardi 

youngt hares tans 
rawlinne, PskUDOMYS 
regine, HyDRoMyYS .. 

Macropvs.. 

OSPHRANTER 

PETAURUS 
regulus, PIPISTRELLUS 
RHINOLOPHUS aurantius 

cervinus .. 

megaphyllaus 
RHINONICTERIS 

aurantius 
RHINOPHOCA 
RHINOPHYLLOTIS 

megaphyllus 
richardsonii, HAPALOTIS 

Notomys 
RINGTAIL ee 
robinsoni, NYCTYMENE 
robustus, MACROPUS 

OSPHRANTER 
Rock WALLABY 
rogersi, CHALINOLOBUS 
rolandensis, ANTECHINUS 
RorQuaL, COMMON 

LESSER 
RorQuaL 
RorQuatis 
RorqQuaLus 


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rosewentris, DELPHINUS .. 


FRETIDELPHIS 
rostratus, TARSIPES .. 
rothschildi, PETROGALE 
rubens, MACROPUS 
ruber, MACROPUS 
rubicola, MELOMYS 


rubidus, PSHUDOCHIRUS .. 


RUpDOLPHIUS 


rufescens, ANPYPRYMNUS 


BETTONGIA 
ruficollis, KANGURUS 

TRICHOSURUS 
rufiventer, Macropus 


rufogaster, PHASCOGALE .. 


rufogriseus, KANGURUS 
WALLABIA.. 
rufus, KANGURUS 
MEGALEIA 
MyRMECOBIUS .. 
ORNITHORINCUS 
PotoRrovus 
ruppellit, NycticEsUS 
Scorernus 
rutilans, HALMATURUS 
rutilus, HALMATURUS 


SACCOLAIMUS 
flaviventris 
nudicluniatus 
sagitta, THALACOMYS 
SARCOPHILUS 
harrisii 
satanicus 
SATANELLUS 
hallucatus .. 
scapulatus, PTEROPUS 
SCHOINOBATES 
volans a 
Scrurus norfolcensis 
noveehollandice .. 
sciurus, DIDELPHIS .. 
ScOTEINUS 
balstoni 
greyw 
influatus 
ruppellii 
SCOTOPHILUS australis 
gouldit 
grey 
microdon 
morio 
nigrogriseus 
picatus 
SrA-Cow 
SEA-ELEPHANT.. 
SrA-LEOPARD 
SHAL, CRAB-EATING 
Fur ee 


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13 
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91 
28 
29 
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120 MEMOIRS OF 


THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


Paqz. 

Seat, Hair 89 
WEDDELL’S 88 
sechellensis, ZIPHIUS 61 
selma, PHALANGISTA 3l 
semoni, HIPPOSIDEROS 93 
serridens, STENORHYNCHUS 87 
SETONIX : 45 
brachyurus 45 
setosa, ECHIDNA 3 
HyPsiepRyMNUS 38 
PHASCOLOMYS 34 
TTACHYGLOSSUS 3 
sherrini, NyCTOPHILUS 95 
UrRomys 85 
shortridgei, Mus WO 
PsEUDOMYS ize 
sibbaldi, PHYSALUS .. 57 
SIBBALDUS 57 
signata, PETROGALE. 44 
signifer, CHALINOLOBUS .. 97 
simsoni, Mus sit 75 
sinualis, PHASCOGALE .. 6 
SMINTHOPSIS 9 
centralis 9 
constricta 1 
crassicaudata 9 
granulipes 9 
hirtipes itt 
larapinta 10 
leucopus TH 
fongicaudata 11 
lumholtzi 11 
murina 10 
nitela 10 
psammophila 10 
stalkeri 10 
virginice ll 
sordidus, Mus 72 
Ratrus 72 
Sousa 67 
gadamu 68 
lentizinosa 68 
SPECTRUM 90 
spenceri, ANTE CHINOMYS 12 
spensere, TARSIPES 21 
SPH XZXROCEPHALUS 64 
SprLocuscus 32 
nudicaudatus 32 
squalorum, Mus bes 80 
squamicaudata, WYULDA By4 
SQUIRREL-GLIDER 24 
stalker’, SMINTHOPSIS 10 
STENELLA 65 
attenuata SMe ek’ 66 
longirostris Romane sua Comoe) 
STENO gadamu 68 
lentiginosus 68 
STENOBALZNA SRE Na HONE 
wanthogaster |. 44... 58 
STENORHYNCHOTES 87 
STENORHYNCHUS 87 
serridens 87 


stenotis, HIPPOSIDEROS 
STICTOPHONUS.. .. 
stigmatica, THYLOGALE 
striatus, HALMATURUS 

THYLACINUS 
stuartii, ANTECHINUS 
sturti, Notomys 
subiens, KOALA 
subrufus, Mus 
subtilissima, Puascogauy 
subtropicalis, GYPSOPHOCA 
SuGAR-GLIDER 
SULPHUR-BOTTOM : 
superciliosus, DELPHINUS- 
swainsonii, PHASCOGALE 
SWINHOIA 
SyCoNYCTERIS 

australis : 
sydneiensis, ECHIDNA 
SyPHOMIA 


T 


TACHYGLOSSUS 
aculeatus 
setosus 
tafa, DASYURUS 
TAPOA 
taguanoides, PErAauRUS 
tamarensis, Mus 
TAMMAR 
TAPHONYCTERIS 
TTAPHOZOUS 
australis 
flaviventris 
fumosus 
georgianus 
hargravei 
insignis 
nudicluniatus 
TAPOA 
tafa 06 
tapoatafa, PHASCOGALE ice 
VIVERRA 
tapouara, DIDELPHIS 
TARSIPES 
rostratus 
spensere 3 
tusmanet, HALMATURUS 
tasmanica, ARCTOCEPHALUS 
GYPSOPHOCA 
ORCA 
tasmaniensis, EUDELPHINUS 
GLISCHROPUS .. 
MACROPUS.. 
Mus... 
NocTuULINA 
PHASCOLOMYS 
VESPERTILIO re 
temporadlis, HALMATURUS 
tenuirostris, PLANIGALE 


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Noes IS ho WO) 


CHECK-LIST OF MAMMALS—IREDALE AND TROUGHTON. 


terreregine, Mus 
tetragonurus, Mus 
THALACOMYS 


I ae aa 


nigripes 

sagitta 
thetis, HaAtMarTuRUs. 

THYLOGALE 
THETOMYS oh) 

ferculinus 

gouldii ee 

eee ee 

nanus . 

preeconis A 
thomsoni, Mrsoriopon 
THYLACINUS 

breviceps 

cynocephalus 

harrisi 

striatus 
THYLACIS .. 
TTHYLACOMYS 
THYLAX 
THYLOGALE 

bedfordi 

billardierti 

coxenti. 

eugenii 

flindersii 

parma 

stigmatica .. 

thetis .. Bs 
TIGER, TASMANIAN .. 
timoriensis, NyCTOPHILUS 

VESPERTILIO 
tompsoni, Mus .. 
TooLacH fe 
torosus, PERAMELES. 
traversti, Doticnopon 
TREE-KANGAROO 
TRICHOSURUS 

arnhemensis 

caninus 

eburacensis 

mesurus 

nigrans 

ruficollis 

vulpecula : 
tridactyla, DipELPHIS 

Dipus ier ae 

Pororous 
triton, ORNITHORHYNCHUS 
tropicalis, GYPSOPHOCA 
tryoni, NYCTIMENE .. 
tucker’, PERAMELES 
tunney?, Mus 

Ratrus ar 
TuRsIo ae He 
tursio, TURSIOPS: Ke 
TURSIOPS 

catalania 

maugeanus 


Pace. 


19, 


59, 67, 


74 
75 
19 
20 
20 
20 
46 
46 
17 
rei 
V7 
vat) 
rei 
7 
62 
15 
15 
15 
15 
15 
18 
84 
18 
45 
46 
46 
45 
46 
46 
46 
45 
46 
15 
95 
95 
74 
50 
18 
62 
39 
30 
31 
32 
31 
31 
4 
32 
30 


TURSIOPS tursio Z 
typhlops, NoTORYCTES .. 
PSAMMORYCTES 


U 


ualabatus, KANGURUS 
unguifer, MACROPUS 
ONYCHOGALEA 
unicolor, ANTECHINUS .. 
DROMICIA .. 
NyYCTOPHILUS 
UPpEROODON 
URANODON 
VEoays .. 
banfieldi 
caudimaculatus 
exilis 
littoralis 
melicus 
murinus 
sherrint 
URsINUS 
harrisii 
ursinus, DIvELruis— 
VOMBATUS 
Ursus novechollandice 


V 


vallesius, RATTUS 
variabilis, Mus 
vellerosus, Mus 
Rarrus 
velutinus, Mus .. 
RATTUS e ‘ 
venatoris, CHALIN' oLoBu Ss 
ventricosus, DELPHINUS 
GLOBICEPHALUS 
venustula, PETROGALE 
VESPADELUS .. 
pumilus an 
VESPERTILIO abramus 
australis .. 
blepotis 
macropus 
tasmaniensis 
timoriensis. . 
VESPERUGO kreffti 
victoriw, PHALANGISTA 
PsEUDOCHIRUS 
villosissimus, Mus 
Ratrrus 
vinosus, KANGURUS 
virginie, PHASCOGALE 
viverrina, DIDELPHIS 
PHALANGISTA 
volans, DIDELPHIS 
SCHOINOBATES 
voluccella, DIDELPHIS 


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Pace. 


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122 MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 


VOLUCELLA 

nigra .. 
VoMBATUS 

hirsutus 

ursinus 
vulpecula, DIDELPHIS 
vulpina, DIDELPHIS 
vulturnus, EPTESICUS 


W 


waitei, LEGGADINA 
PsEUDOMYS 
walkeri, NYCTOPHILUS 
WHAT DABIA Kia oe Seen, a rae 
agilis .. 
bicolor 
dorsalis 
elegans 
greyt .. 
arma 
rufogrisea 
welsby? aK 
WALLABY, BANDED. . 
BLACK-GLOVED. . 
BLACK-TAILED .. 
BruSH 
NAIL-TAIL 
PRETTY-FACE 
RED-NECKED 
SANDY 
ScrvuB 
Swamp 
WALLAROO 
WAMBERGER 
WatTER Rat ids 
weddellii, LEPTONY CHOTES 
OTARIA ae 
welsbyi, MACROPUS .. 
WALLABIA.. 
WHALE, BEAKED 
Brack 
BLUE 
BorrLENOSED 
Piemy Ricut .. 
Pigmy SPERM .. 
PIKED 


Paces. 


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29 
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34 
34 
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PAGE. 
WHALE, PILoT Es AGE. 
Ricut 56 
SPERM 59 
WHITE 63 
WHIPTAIL 49 
white, HYPsIPRYMNUS 36 
wilcoxi, HALMATURUS 45 
Mo.ossus A 101 
wilkinsoni, PETROGALE .. 43 
WoMBAT 5 33 
wombat, DIDELPHIS — 34 
Wompatuua 35 
WoMBATUS fossor 5 4.384 
woodwardi, DENDRODORCOpsIS 52 
Laomys ; 80 
MACROPUS. . 51 
Mus 73 
Ratrus 73 
WYULDA ie 32 
squamicaudata 32 

x 
wanthogaster, STENOBALANA 58 
vanthopus, PETROGALE 44 
PHALANGISTA 31 
wvanthopygus, PHALAN' GIST: A 44 
XENOCHIRUS 23 
XEROMYS .. 70 
myoides 7p 

Yy 
youngi, RaTTrus 74 

Z 
ZEBUA 54 
ZERBUA Rengaris 5S 
ZIPHICES EL 60 
ZIPHIORRHYNCHUS .. 60 
ZIPHIUS . 60 
chathamiensis 61 
layardii 61 
novezealandic .. 61 
sechellensis 61 
ZYZOMYS 82 
argurus 83