Bettongia pusilla

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	DIPROTODONTIA	POTOROIDAE

Scientific Name:

Bettongia pusilla

Species Authority:

McNamara, 1997

Common Name/s:

English

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Nullarbor Dwarf Bettong

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct ver 3.1
Year Published:	2008
Assessor/s:	Burbidge, A.
Reviewer/s:	Lamoreux, J. & Hilton-Taylor, C. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Listed as Extinct as it is only known from the fossil record, although it probably was extant after 1500 AD.

Range Description:	This species was known from the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia and South Australia. This habitat has been surveyed and there is no evidence of current existence of this or most other similar-sized mammal species.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Australia
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Population:	Only known from recent subfossils (McNamara 1997). There is little doubt that this species persisted into European settlement.

Population:

Only known from recent subfossils (McNamara 1997). There is little doubt that this species persisted into European settlement.

Habitat and Ecology:	There is no information about its habitat or ecology.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	There are no major threats to this species.

Major Threat(s):

There are no major threats to this species.

Conservation Actions:	There are no conservation measures pertaining to this species. All Bettongia spp. are listed on CITES Appendix I.

Conservation Actions:

There are no conservation measures pertaining to this species.
All Bettongia spp. are listed on CITES Appendix I.

	IUCN. 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 5 October 2008). McNamara, J. A. 1997. Some smaller macropod fossils of South Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 117: 97-106.

IUCN. 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 5 October 2008).

McNamara, J. A. 1997. Some smaller macropod fossils of South Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 117: 97-106.

Citation:	Burbidge, A. 2008. Bettongia pusilla. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2013.
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