Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Onychogalea lunata

Description

Onychogalea lunata (Gould, 1841). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840:93 [1841].

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Western Australia, coast.

DISTRIBUTION: SC and SW Western Australia, S Northern Territory.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Extinct; probably extinct.

COMMENTS: Extinct throughout most or all of its former range. McAllan and Bruce (1989) argued that the original publication of this name was in The Athenaeum, 670:685 [29 August 1840].

Notes

Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Diprotodontia, pp. 45-62 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353075

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Macropodidae
Genus
Onychogalea
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diprotodontia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gould
Species
lunata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Onychogalea lunata (Gould, 1841) sec. Groves, 1993

References

  • McAllan, A. W., and M. D. Bruce. 1989. Some problems in vertebrate nomenclature. I. Mammals. Bollettino, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 7: 443 - 460.