Potorous tridactylus benormi Courtney, 1963a

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 330

Potorous tridactylus benormi Courtney, 1963a

Aust. Aviculture 17 (2): 19. (February) and 17 (6): 92. (June 1963).

Common name. Long-nosed Potoroo.

Current name. Potorous tridactylus apicalis ( Gould, 1851) , following Eldridge & Frankham (2015).

Holotype. M.8319 by original designation. Male, skull ( Fig. 26 ), study skin, skinned body in alc., collected on 3 September 1962, by B. C. Heddle, donated by John Courtney. Died in captivity on 10 February 1963, registered 21 February 1963.

Condition. Cranium and both dentaries complete. Whole study skin with scrotum. Testes in alc.

Cranial measurements (mm). M.8319: GL, 81.37; ConL, 76.12; BasL, 70.97; NasL, 36.04; NasB, 7.22; UC1–C1 (alv.), 10.37; DIL, 14.04; APV, —; PPV, —; PAL, —; UPM (alv.), 5.61; UMR (alv.), 15.75; ZB, 39.37; POC, 15.8; BUL, 8.49; MB, 28.09; DL (condyl.), 49.51; LPM (alv.), 5.01; LMR (alv.), 15.45.

Type locality. Camp Creek, ½ mile north of Currie, King Island, Bass Strait, Tasmania Australia .

Paratype. M.8373 by original designation. Female, skull, study skin, same details as holotype. Died in captivity on 8 March 1963, registered August 1963.

Comments. Description based on two specimens. The initial description published in February ( Courtney, 1963b), was corrected and extended ( Courtney, 1963a). Subspecies of P. tridactylus were examined in the gene sequencing study of Frankham et al. (2012). Subsequent analysis of mitochondrial DNA indicates that the King Island population groups with the Tasmanian lineage (G. Frankham, pers. comm. July 2015).

Figures

Figure 26. AM M.8319, holotype skull of Potorous tridactylus benormi Courtney, 1963a. (Photography by Stuart Humphreys).