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Checklist of the Mammals of Western Australia Records ofthe Western Australian Museum Supplement No. 63: 91-98 (2001). Checklist of the mammals of Western Australia R.A. How, N.K. Cooper and J.L. Bannister Western Australian Museum, Francis Street, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia INTRODUCTION continued collection of species across their range. The Checklist ofthe Mammals ofWestern Australia is Where the level of taxonomic uncertainty is being a collation of the most recent systematic information formally resolved, footnotes to the individual taxon on Western Australian mammal taxa, incorporating appear at the end of the family listings. the list of taxa compiled from the Western Numerous taxa have become extinct on a national Australian Museum's mammal database and the or state level since European settlement and there literature. The Checklist presents the nomenclature have been several recent attempts to reintroduce accepted by the Western Australian Museum in regionally extinct taxa to former areas. The present maintaining the state's mammal collection and status of these taxa is indicated by symbols in the database. Listed are those species probably extant Checklist. at the time of arrival of Europeans to Western Australia. Symbols used Nomenclature, in general, follows the Zoological t Denotes extinct taxon. Catalogue ofAustralia, Volume 5, Mammalia (1988). * Denotes taxon extinct in Western Australia but Consideration has been given to the nomenclatural extant in other parts of Australia. decisions in The 1996 Action Plan of Australian $ Denotes taxon extinct on Western Australian Marsupials and Monotremes (Maxwell, Burbidge and mainland and recently reintroduced from other Morris, 1996) and The Action Plan for Australian Bats parts of Australia or translocated from islands (Reardon, 1999a). For cetaceans, consideration has off Western Australia. also been given to the recent marine mammal + Denotes non-Australian fauna now established review by Rice (1998) and to The Action Plan for as wild populations. Australian Cetaceans (Bannister, Kemper and # Vagrant. Warneke, 1996). The order of cetacean families Sightings (for Cetaceans only). follows the recommendations of Rice (op. cit.). Common names ascribed are those that are widely accepted or which appear first in the list of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS indigenous names in The Mammals of Australia (1998). We have used a different common name The authors would like to thank Ken Aplin who where we have recent taxonomic information provided enlightened comments, and Mark Adams, relating to altered specific/subspecific status in Alex Baynes, Andrew Burbidge, Laurie Corbett, Western Australia. Jackie Courtney, Mark Eldridge, Mark Harvey, Since, 1950, about 60 new mammal taxa have Cath Kemper, Harry Pamaby, Peter Spencer and been described or recognised within Western Steve Van Dyck for sharing their systematic Australia as a result of the continuing research into expertise with us. the identity of mammal species. Many of these taxa have been identified because of the recent advances REFERENCES in molecular and genetic techniques that use tissue samples from the extensive specimen-based Bannister, J.L., Kemper, CM. and Warneke, RM. (1996). collections housed at the Western Australian The Action Plan for Australian Cetaceans. Australian Museum. New discoveries have also resulted from Nature Conservation Agency, Canberra. recent fieldwork in areas of Western Australia Boscacci, L.J., McKenzie, N.L. and Kemper, CM. (1987). Mammals. In N.L. McKenzie and A.C Robinson where little systematic collecting had been carried (eds), A biological survey of the Nullarbor region South out previously and from examination of specimens and Western Australia in 1984: 109. South Australian within the Western Australian mammal collection. Department of Environment and Planning, Adelaide. The study of variation within Western Australia's Courtney, J.M. (1993). The systematics of the Hare­ mammal fauna is ongoing and additional wallabies; Lagorchestes, Gould 1841 and Lagostrophus, recognisable taxa have yet to be formally described. Thomas 1887. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Australian This level of taxonomic uncertainty necessitates National University, Canberra. 92 R.A. How, N.K. Cooper, J.L. Bannister Groves, c.P. and Bishop, J.F. (1989). Cervidae. In Walton, 6-14. Natural Heritage Trust, Canberra, Australia. D.W. and Richardson, B.J. (eds), Fauna ofAustralia Vol Reardon, T. (1999b). Nomenclature of Tadarida australis lb. Mammalia: 1054-1060. Australian Government (Gray 1838). The Australasian Bat Society Newsletter 12: Publishing Service, Canberra. 22-24. Kerle, J.A, McKay, G.M. and Sharman, G.B. (1991). A Rice, D.W. (1998). Marine mammals ofthe world: systematics systematic analysis of the brushtail possum and distribution. The Society for Marine Mammalogy, Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr 1792) (Marsupialia: Special Publication Number 4. Phalangeridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 313­ Spencer, P. and Eldridge, M. (1998). A report on the 331. taxonomic and population status of the Rufous hare­ Maxwell, S., Burbidge, AA and Morris, K. (1996). The wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus). Unpublished report 1996 Action Plan of Australian Marsupials and for the Mala Recovery Team meeting Alice Springs, Monotremes. Wildlife Australia, Australian Nature Northern Territory. Conservation Agency, Canberra Strahan, R. (ed.) (1998). The Mammals of Australia. Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. (1992). Family Muridae. Australian Museum/Reed Books, Sydney. In D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder (eds), mammal species Walton, D.W. (ed.) (1988). Zoological Catalogue ofAustralia, of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 2nd vol. 5, Mammalia. Australian Government edition: 501- 755. Smithsonian Institution, Publication Service, Canberra. Washington. Reardon, T. (1999a). Taxonomy and selection of taxa for this action plan. In A Duncan, G.B. Baker and N. Manuscript received 14 July 1999; accepted 21 February 2001. Montgomery (eds), The Action Plan for Australian Bats: Class MAMMALIA Phascogale tapoatafa (Meyer, 1793) P. t. tapoatafa1 (Meyer, 1793) Subclass PROTOTHERIA Southern Brush-tailed Phascogale, Wambenger Order MONOTREMATA P. t. pirata (Thomas, 1904) Northern Brush-tailed Phascogale Family TACHYGLOSSIDAE Planigale ingramP (Thomas, 1906) Long-tailed Planigale Tachyglossus aculeatus (Shaw, 1792) Echidna Planigale maculata (Gould, 1851) Common Planigale Pseudantechinus macdonneIIensis (Spencer, 1895) Fat-tailed Pseudantechinus Subclass MARSUPIALIA Pseudantechinus ningbing Kitchener, 1988 Ningbing Pseudantechinus Order DASYUROMORPHIA Pseudantechinus roryi Cooper, Aplin and Adams, Family DASYURIDAE 2000 Rory's Pseudantechinus Pseudantechinus wooIIeyae Kitchener and Caputi, Antechinomys Ianiger (Gould, 1856) Kultarr 1988 Woolley's Pseudantechinus Antechinus fIavipes (Waterhouse, 1838) Sminthopsis butleri Archer, 1979 Butler's Dunnart A. f Ieucogaster (Gray, 1841) Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Gould, 1844) Yellow-footed Antechinus, Mardo Fat-tailed Dunnart Dasycercus cristicauda (Krefft, 1867) Mulgara Sminthopsis dolichura Kitchener, Stoddart and Dasycercus hiIIieri (Thomas, 1905) Ampurta Henry, 1984 Little Long-tailed Dunnart Dasykaluta rosamondae (Ride, 1964) Little Red Kaluta Sminthopsis gilberti Kitchener, Stoddart and Henry, Dasyurus geoffroii Gould, 1841 1984 Gilbert's Dunnart Western Quoll, Chuditch Sminthopsis granuIipes Troughton, 1932 Dasyurus haIIucatus Gould, 1842 Northern Quoll White-tailed Dunnart Ningaui ridei Archer, 1975 Wongai Ningaui Sminthopsis griseoventer Kitchener, Stoddart and Ningaui timealeyi Archer, 1975 Pilbara Ningaui Henry, 1984 Ningaui yvonneae Kitchener, Stoddart and Henry, S. g. griseoventer Kitchener, Stoddart and Henry, 1983 Southern Ningaui 1984 Grey-bellied Dunnart Parantechinus apicaIis (Gray, 1842) Dibbler S. g. bouIIangerensis Crowther, Dickman and Phascogale calura Gould, 1844 Red-tailed Phascogale Lynam, 1999 Boullanger Island Dunnart I P. t. tapoatafa in south-western Australia is now recognised as representing an undescribed species (S.G. Rhind and N.K. Cooper, unpublished data). 1 A new taxon ofPlanigale that is morphologically and genetically distinct is being described (M. Adams, R.A. How and N.K. Cooper, unpublished data). Mammals 93 Sminthopsis hirtipes Thomas, 1898 Notoryctes typhlops (Stirling, 1889) Hairy-footed Dunnart Southern Marsupial Mole Sminthopsis longicaudata Spencer, 1909 Long-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis macroura3 (Gould, 1845) Order DIPROTODONTIA Stripe-faced Dunnart Family VOMBATIDAE Sminthopsis ooldea Troughton, 1965 Ooldea Dunnart Sminthopsis psammophila Spencer, 1895 Lasiorhinus latifrons (Owen, 1845) Sandhill Dunnart Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat Sminthopsis virginiae4 (Tarragon, 1847) Red-cheeked Dunnart Family POTOROIDAE Sminthopsis youngsoni McKenzie and Archer, 1982 Lesser Hairy-footed Dunnart Bettongia lesueurS (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) B. 1. lesueur (Quoy and Gairnard, 1824) Shark Bay Burrowing Bettong Family MYRMECOBIIDAE tB. 1. graii (Gould, 1841) Myrmecobius fasciatus Waterhouse, 1836 Burrowing Bettong, Boodie Numbat, Walpurti Bettongia penicillata Gray, 1837 B. p. ogilbyi (Waterhouse, 1841) Brush-tailed Bettong, Woylie Order PERAMELEMORPHIA tPotorous platyops (Gould, 1844) Broad-faced Potoroo Potorous gilbertii (Gould, 1841) Gilbert's Potoroo Family PERAMELIDAE tChaeropus ecaudatus (Ogilby, 1838) Family MACROPODIDAE Pig-footed Bandicoot tLagorchestes asomatus Finlayson, 1943 Isoodon auratus (Rarnsay, 1887) Central Hare-wallaby 1. a. auratus (Rarnsay, 1887) Golden Bandicoot Lagorchestes conspicillatus
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