Perameles bougainville Quoy and Gaimard 1824

Perameles bougainville Quoy and Gaimard 1824, in: de Freycinet, Voy. autour du monde ... Uranie et al Physicienne, Zool.: 56.

Type Locality: Australia, Western Australia, Shark Bay, Peron Peninsula.

Vernacular Names: Western Barred Bandicoot.

Synonyms: Perameles arenaria Gould 1844; Perameles fasciata Gray 1841; Perameles myosuros Wagner 1841; Perameles notina Thomas 1922 .

Distribution: Formerly in S South Australia, NW Victoria, W New South Wales, S Western Australia, Bernier and Dorre Isls, survives only on Bernier and Dorre Isls (off Western Australia).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Extinct as P. b. fasciata, Endangered as P. b. bougainville . Rare.

Discussion: See Ride (1970:100).