Sarcophilus harrisii Boitard 1841
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Sarcophilus harrisii Boitard 1841
Sarcophilus harrisii Boitard 1841, Le Jardin des Plantes: 290.
Type Locality: Tasmania.
Vernacular Names: Tasmanian Devil.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Sarcophilus harrisii subsp. harrisii Boitard 1841
Subspecies Sarcophilus harrisii subsp. dixonae Werdelin 1987
Distribution: Australia: Tasmania; known as a subfossil in S Victoria (Mt. Hamilton and Lake Corangamite).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Common.
Discussion: Groves (1993) called this species S. laniarius Owen, 1838, which was based on Pleistocene specimens from Wellington Caves, New South Wales. Werdelin (1987:9) argued that the Pleistocene and recent Sarcophilus were only subspecifically distinct, and as Owen’s name antedates Boitard’s (a replacement name for Didelphis ursina Harris, 1808 [preoccupied by Didelphis ursina Shaw, 1800]) by three years, laniarius must take precedence. Inspection of Werdelin (1987, Tables 1 and 2) shows, however, that recent and fossil ranges do not overlap in many variables, so they may be retained as different species. The Victorian subfossil dixonae remains as a subspecies of S. harrisii; though it is distinctive its measurements overlap with those of the living Tasmanian form.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A4288A5CED217369FCA70E7B62820497 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/F869E292ACC3E19C503F4F7A1E5E3BF7 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231540609 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Boitard
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Dasyuromorphia
- Family
- Dasyuridae
- Genus
- Sarcophilus
- Species
- harrisii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sarcophilus harrisii Boitard, 1841 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Werdelin, L. 1987. Some observations on Sarcophilus laniarius and the evolution of Sarcophilus. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, 90: 1 - 27.
- Groves, C. P., and P. Grubb. 1993. The Eurasian suids: Sus and Babyrousa. Taxonomy and description. Pp. 107 - 111, in Action plan for the Suiformes (W. L. R. Oliver, ed.). I. U. C. N., Gland, Switzerland, 202 pp.
- Shaw, G. 1800. General zoology or systematic natural history. G. Kearsley, London, 12: 1 - 330.