Perameles bougainville Quoy and Gaimard, 1824 . In. de Freycinet, Voy. autour du monde...l'Uranie et al Physicienne, Zool., p. 56.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Western Australia, Shark Bay, Peron Peninsula .

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

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

SYNONYMS: arenaria, fasciata, myosuros, notina.

COMMENTS: See Ride (1970:100).