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Peroryctinae Groves and Flannery 1990

Description

Peroryctinae Groves and Flannery 1990

Peroryctinae Groves and Flannery 1990, in: Seebeck et al. (eds.), Bandicoots and Bilbies: 2.

Genera: 1 genus with 2 species:

Genus Peroryctes Thomas 1906 (2 species with 2 subspecies)

Discussion: McKenna and Bell (1997) attributed this name to a publication of Archer et al. (1989), but this is a nomen nudum, referring to a manuscript name of Groves and Flannery. Kirsch et al. (1997) reduced this to a subfamily under Peramelidae. Westerman et al. (1999) considered the family, sensu Groves and Flannery, probably polyphyletic, and that Echymipera and Microperoryctes form a sister clade to genera of the Peramelidae; further material confirms this, and add Peroryctes as a third, probably sister clade to the rest (Westerman et al, 2001). A peroryctid, probably Echymipera sp., occurred on Halmahera until 1870 B. P. (Flannery et al., 1995 a).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Peramelemorphia, pp. 38-42 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Family
Peramelidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Peramelemorphia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Groves and Flannery
Taxon rank
subFamily
Taxonomic concept label
Peroryctinae and, 1990 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Groves, C. P., and T. F. Flannery. 1990. Revision of the families and genera of bandicoots. Pp. 1 - 11, in Bandicoots and bilbies (J. H. Seebeck, R. L. Wallis, P. R. Brown, and C. M. Kemper, eds.). Surrey Beatty and Sons Pty. Ltd., Sydney, 392 pp.
  • McKenna, M. C., and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.
  • Kirsch, J. A. W., F. - J. Lapointe, and M. S. Springer. 1997. DNA-hybridisation studies of marsupials and their implications for Metatherian classification. Australian Journal of Zoology, 45: 211 - 280.
  • Westerman, M., M. S. Springer, J. Dixon, and C. Krajewski. 1999. Molecular relationships of the extinct pig-footed bandicoot Chaeropus ecaudatus (Marsupialia: Perameloidea) using 12 S rRNA sequences. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 6: 271 - 288.
  • Westerman, M., M. S. Springer, and C. Karjewski. 2001. Molecular relationships of the New Guinean bandicoot genera Microperoryctes and Echymipera (Marsupialia: Peramelina). Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 8: 93 - 105.
  • Flannery, T. F., P. Bellwood, P. White, A. Moore, B. Boeadi, and G. Nitihaminoto. 1995 a. Fossil marsupials (Macropodidae, Peroryctidae) and other mammals of Holocene age from Halmahera, North Moluccas, Indonesia. Alcheringa, 19: 17 - 25.