Potorous platyops

– Extinct

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

DIPROTODONTIA

Family:

POTOROIDAE

Scientific Name:

Potorous platyops

Species Authority:

(Gould, 1844)

Common Name/s:

English

—

BROAD-FACED POTOROO

Red List Category & Criteria:

EX ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group

Justification:

The broad-faced potoroo is thought to have been extinct since around 1875.

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)

Countries:

Regionally extinct:

Australia

System:

Terrestrial

Citation:	Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group 1996. Potorous platyops. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 07 September 2008.
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