Echymipera davidi Flannery, 1990

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 : 314

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scientific name	Echymipera davidi Flannery, 1990
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Echymipera davidi Flannery, 1990 View in CoL

Seebeck, J. H. et al. (ed.), Bandicoots and Bilbies, p. 29, figs 1–3, table 1. (December 1990).

Common name. David’s Echymipera .

Current name. Echymipera davidi Flannery, 1990 ; following Groves (2005c).

Holotype. M.7154 by original designation. Adult male, list No. 100, skull, study skin, collected by E. Le G. Troughton on 28 April 1945, registered 14 October 1945.

Condition. Incomplete cranium, missing 1st, 2nd, 3rd incisors on both sides, and left upper 1st and 2nd post-canine teeth. Both dentaries missing all incisors, left dentary missing 4th and 5th post-canine teeth. Study skin: skin missing from near the tail tip, otherwise in good condition.

Type locality. Kiriwina Island (8°30'S 151°00'E), Trobriand Island Group , Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. The exact collecting locality on Kiriwina Island is not given in the register GoogleMaps .

Comments. The three paratypes are in AMNH. Good quality photographs of holotype and one paratype skull are given in the original description .