Perameles pallescens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Peramelemorphia
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Metatheria Cladus: Marsupialiformes Infraclassis: Marsupialia Cladus: Australidelphia Cladus: Eomarsupialia Ordo: Peramelemorphia

Holotype: BMNH 22.12.18.40, adult ♂, skin and skeleton.

Type locality: “Vine Creek, Ravenshoe, 3000'”, Queensland, Australia.

Perameles nasuta pallescens Thomas, 1923: 173 [original combination, as subspecies]
Perameles pallescens: Burbidge et al., 2014: 19, 28 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

Thomas, O. 1923. The Godman Exploration Fund: List of Mammals from North Queensland collected by Mr. T. V. Sherrin. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, ser. 9, 11(61): 170–178. DOI: 10.1080/00222932308632835 BHL Reference page.
Burbidge, A.A., Eldridge, M.D.B., Groves, C., Harrison, P.L., Jackson, S.M., Reardon, T.B., Westerman, M. & Woinarski, J.C.Z. 2014. A list of native Australian mammal species and subspecies. pp. 15–32 In Woinarski, J.C.Z., Burbidge, A.A. & Harrison, P.L. (Eds.). The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.

Westerman, M., Kear, B.P., Aplin, K., Meredith, R.W., Emerling, C. & Springer, M.S. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships of living and recently extinct bandicoots based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62(1): 97–108. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.009
Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. CSIRO Publishing: Clayton. 529 pp. ISBN 978-1-486-30012-9. Reference page.
Travouillon, K.J. 2016. Investigating dental variation in Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804, with morphological evidence to raise P. nasuta pallescens Thomas, 1923 to species rank. Zootaxa 4114(4): 351–392. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.4.1. Reference page.

English: Northern Long-nosed Bandicoot