NUMBAT Myrmecobius fasciatus Waterhouse, 1836 (EN)

MZUT T478 (687); mount; female ad.; York district, Western Australia; VII/1844; donation by Mr. Preiss MZUT T479 (699); mount; male ad.; Australia; I/1845; purchased by G.A. Frank.

Remarks: The MZUT catalogue reports that the specimen MZUT T478 was killed on 10/04/1840. Johann August Ludwig Preiss (1811-1883) was a German naturalist mainly interested in plant collection, but he made extensive collections of natural history specimens of all kinds. In the course of his activities he visited from 1838 to 1841 most of the known parts of southwestern Australia and several islands off the coast. Most of his zoological collection was sold to various European museums, or dealers of natural history specimens.