Perameles eremiana

– Extinct

Taxonomy

Kingdom:	ANIMALIA
Phylum:	CHORDATA
Class:	MAMMALIA
Order:	PERAMELEMORPHIA
Family:	PERAMELIDAE
Scientific Name:	Perameles eremiana
Species Authority:	Spencer, 1897
Common Name/s:	DESERT BANDICOOT (Eng) PÉRAMÈLE DU DÉSERT (Fre)

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EX ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group

Justification:

This species has not been collected since 1943 when one specimen was taken in Western Australia.

History:

1982	-	Extinct (Thornback and Jenkins 1982)
1986	-	Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Extinct (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Extinct (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Range Description:	Perameles eremiana was endemic to Australia.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: Australia

Population

Population:

The species was last collected in 1943.

Habitat and Ecology

Habitat and Ecology:

The species was associated with spinifex grassland areas.

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

2.1	Savanna - Dry
4.5	Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry

Threats

Threats:

Population decline was a result of human modification of the habitat (clearing of the natural vegetation and other modifications), inadvertent destruction through efforts to control pest species (poisoning and trapping of rabbits), and introduced predators such as cats, dogs and foxes. Changed burning regimes have also been blamed for species losses in inland arid areas of Australia – the gradual patchwork burning by aboriginal people was replaced by intensive, "lightening-caused" wildfires which destroyed habitat diversity.

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Groombridge, B. 1992. Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth’s Living Resources. Report compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Chapman and Hall, London.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. and Morris, K. (compilers) 1996. Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. IUCN/SSC Australasian Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group. .

Nowak, R.M. (ed.) 1999. Walkers Mammals of the World. Sixth edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.

Thornback, J. and Jenkins, M. 1982. The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: Threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Citation:	Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group 1996. Perameles eremiana. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 July 2008.
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