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Petrogale puella Thomas 1926

Description

Petrogale puella Thomas, 1926

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 9) 17: 627. (1 June 1926).

Common name. Allied Rock-wallaby.

Current name. Petrogale assimilis Ramsay, 1877f; following Jackson & Groves (2015).

Paratype. M.3884, by subsequent determination. Female, skull, study skin, Torrens Creek, alt. 1600 ft, north Qld, sent from BM, former number BM 1925.8.1.54, Field no. 145, collected by B. Hore on 27 September 1923. Received from the BMNH in 1926, registered in AM on 14 February 1927.

Comments. The six specimens mentioned in the original description (Thomas, 1926) were all registered in the BMNH: BM 1925.8.1.49–54 (P. Jenkins, BMNH, pers. comm. 18 February 2014).

Notes

Published as part of Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 277-420 in Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5) on page 339, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653, http://zenodo.org/record/5237800

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH , BMNH, AM
Event date
1923-09-27 , 1927-02-14 , 2014-02-18
Family
Macropodidae
Genus
Petrogale
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diprotodontia
Phylum
Chordata
Species
puella
Taxon rank
species
Type status
paratype
Verbatim event date
1923-09-27 , 1927-02-14 , 2014-02-18
Taxonomic concept label
Petrogale puella Thomas, 1926 sec. Parnaby, Ingleby & Divljan, 2017

References

  • Thomas, O. 1926. On various mammals obtained on Capt. Wilkin's expedition in Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 9) 17 (104): 625 - 635. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932608633458