Chaeropus ecaudatus

Chaeropus ecaudatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Peramelemorphia
Clade: Marsupialiformes Cohors: Marsupialia Cladus: Australidelphia Cladus: Eomarsupialia Ordo: Peramelemorphia

Familia: †Chaeropodidae
Genus: †Chaeropus
Species: †Chaeropus ecaudatus
Subspecies (2): †C. e. ecaudatus – †C. e. occidentalis

Name

• †Chaeropus ecaudatus (Ogilby, 1838)

Holotype: AM PA422 (previously AM Bennett’s Cat. 35), juvenile ♀ skull, collected by Sir Thomas Mitchell.

Type locality: “banks of the River Murray[, south of the junction with Murrumbridge River] … in the interior of New South Wales”, Australia.

Combinations

• Perameles ecaudatus Ogilby, 1838: 25 [original combination]
• Choeropus [sic] ecaudatus — Waterhouse, 1841: 163 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Ogilby, W. 1838. On a new species of marsupial animal by Major Mitchell on the banks of the Murray River in New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 6: 25–27. BHL

Additional references

• Travouillon, K.J., Simões, B.F., Miguez, R.P., Brace, S., Brewer, P., Stemmer, D., Price, G.J., Cramb, J. & Louys, J. 2019. Hidden in plain sight: reassessment of the pig-footed bandicoot, Chaeropus ecaudatus (Peramelemorphia, Chaeropodidae), with a description of a new species from central australia, and use of the fossil record to trace its past distribution. Zootaxa 4566(1): 1–69. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4566.1.1. Reference page. 

Links

• Chaeropus ecaudatus in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Burbidge, A.A. & Woinarski, J. 2016. IUCN: Chaeropus ecaudatus  (Extinct). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T4322A21965168. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T4322A21965168.en

Vernacular names

English: Southern Pig-footed Bandicoot
日本語: ブタアシバンディクート
Türkçe: Domuz ayaklı bandikut
中文: 豚足袋狸