Bettongia lesueur (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824)

Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Diprotodontia, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 45-62 : 49

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scientific name	Bettongia lesueur (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824)
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Bettongia lesueur (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) View in CoL . In de Freycinet, Voy. autour du monde...Uranie et al Physicienne, Zool., p. 64.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Western Australia, Dirk Hartog Island (Shark Bay) .

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

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Rare.

SYNONYMS: anhydra , graii , harveyi.

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