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Genus Notoryctes Stirling, 1891

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Genus Notoryctes Stirling, 1891

  • Notoryctes Stirling, E.C. 1891. Description of a new genus and species of Marsupialia 'Notoryctes typhlops'. Transactions and Proceedings and Reports of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 154-187 pls ii-ix [154] [nom. nov. for Psammoryctes Stirling, 1889].
  • Psammoryctes Stirling, E.C. 1889. 'Minutes'. Transactions and Proceedings and Reports of the Royal Society of South Australia 12: 157-158 [158] [junior homonym of Psammoryctes Pöppig, 1835; junior homonym of Psammoryctes Vejdovsky, 1876; referring to his paper of the previous year, Stirling, E.C. 1888. Preliminary notes on a new Australian mammal. Trans. Proc. Rept. R. Soc. S. Aust. 11: 21–24, Stirling announced that the name Psammoryctes typhlops would be applied; by the time he published (1891) the more detailed description, he had learned that Psammoryctes was preoccupied and proposed the nom. nov. Notoryctes].
    Type species:
     Psammoryctes typhlops Stirling, 1889 by original designation.
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Stirling, E.C. 1888. Preliminary notes on a new Australian mammal. Transactions and Proceedings and Reports of the Royal Society of South Australia 11: 21-24.
  • Neoryctes Stirling, E.C. 1891. Description of a new genus and species of Marsupialia 'Notoryctes typhlops'. Transactions and Proceedings and Reports of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 154-187 pls ii-ix [186] [nom. nov. for Psammoryctes Stirling, 1889 ex Sclater ms].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Stirling, E.C. 1891. Description of a new genus and species of Marsupialia 'Notoryctes typhlops'. Transactions and Proceedings and Reports of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 154-187 pls ii-ix [186]

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)