Isoodon Desmarest 1817

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Peramelemorphia, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 38-42 : 39

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Isoodon Desmarest 1817 View in CoL

Isoodon Desmarest 1817 View in CoL , Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., Vol. 16: 409.

Type Species: Didelphis obesula Shaw 1797

Synonyms: Thylacis Haltenorth 1958 .

Species and subspecies: 3 species with 7 subspecies:

Species Isoodon auratus Ramsay 1887

Subspecies Isoodon auratus subsp. auratus Ramsay 1887

Subspecies Isoodon auratus subsp. arnhemensis Lyne and Mort 1981

Subspecies Isoodon auratus subsp. barrowensis Thomas 1901

Species Isoodon macrourus Gould 1842

Subspecies Isoodon macrourus subsp. macrourus Gould 1842

Subspecies Isoodon macrourus subsp. moresbyensis Ramsay 1877

Species Isoodon obesulus (Shaw 1797)

Subspecies Isoodon obesulus subsp. obesulus Shaw 1797

Subspecies Isoodon obesulus subsp. nauticus Thomas 1922

Discussion: Includes Thylacis of Haltenorth, 1958, which was an incorrect usage; see Van Deusen and Jones (1967:74) and Lidicker and Follett (1968). Revised by Lyne and Mort (1981).

Haltenorth, T. 1958. Klassifikation der Saugetiere, 1 (1, Ordnung Kloakentiere, Monotremata Bonaparte, 1838, und 2, Ordnung Beuteltiere, Marsupialia Illiger, 1811 [= Didelphia Blainville, 1816]). Handbuch der Zoologie, 8 (16): 1 - 40.

Lidicker, W. Z., Jr., and W. I. Follett. 1968. Isoodon Desmarest, 1817, rather than Thylacis Illiger, 1811, as the valid generic name of the short-nosed bandicoots (Marsupialia: Peramelidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 81: 251 - 256.

Lyne, A. G., and P. A. Mort. 1981. A comparison of skull morphology in the marsupial bandicoot genus Isoodon: Its taxonomic implications and notes on a new species, Isoodon arnhemensis. Australian Mammalogy, 4: 107 - 133.

Van Deusen, H. M., and J. K. Jones, Jr. 1967. Marsupials. Pp. 61 - 86, in Recent mammals of the world (S. Anderson and J. K. Jones, Jr. eds.). Ronald Press Co., New York, 453 pp.