Bettongia lesueur (Quoy and Gaimard 1824)

[Hypsiprymnus] lesueur Quoy and Gaimard 1824, in: de Freycinet, Voy. autour du monde ... Uranie et al Physicienne, Zool.: 64.

Type Locality: Australia, Western Australia, Dirk Hartog Isl (Shark Bay).

Vernacular Names: Boodie.

Synonyms: Bettongia anhydra Finlayson 1957; Bettongia graii (Gould 1841); Bettongia harveyi (Waterhouse 1842) .

Distribution: Formerly in Dampier Land (Western Australia), South Australia, Dirk Hartog Isl, Barrow Isl, Bernier and Dorre Isls, Northern Territory, and SW New South Wales (Australia); now extinct except on W Australian Isls.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Extinct as B. l. graii, otherwise Vulnerable. Rare.

Discussion: Commonly misspelt " lesueuri ", but the original spelling is lesueur, with no indication that it is an error.