Bettongia penicillata ssp. penicillata
– Extinct
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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MAMMALIA
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Order:
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DIPROTODONTIA
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Family:
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POTOROIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Bettongia penicillata ssp. penicillata
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Infra-specific Authority:
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Gray, 1843
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Common Name/s:
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| English | — | BRUSH-TAILED BETTONG |
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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EX ver 2.3 (1994)
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Year Assessed:
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1996
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Annotations:
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Needs updating
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Assessor/s:
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Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group
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Justification:
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Although described as common in South Australia at the end of the nineteenth century, Bettongia penicillata penicillata had disappeared from Australia by 1923.
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History:
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| 1965 | - | "Status inadequately known-survey required or data sought" (Scott 1965) |
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Geographic Range
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Range Description:
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Bettongia penicillata penicillata was endemic to southeastern mainland Australia.
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Countries:
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Regionally extinct:
Australia
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Population
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Population:
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This animal was described as common in South Australia at the end of the nineteenth century but was gone from there by 1923. It has not been recorded in Australia since that time.
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Habitat and Ecology
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Habitat and Ecology:
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B. pencillata is associated with grassland areas, heath, and sclerophyll woodland.
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System:
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Terrestrial
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Threats
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Threats:
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The primary cause of the brush-tailed bettong's extinction seems to have been the clearing of brush areas for agricultural developments.
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Bibliography
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Bibliography:
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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. Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.
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