Thylogale calabyi Flannery, 1992

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 340

Thylogale calabyi Flannery, 1992

Aust. Mammal. 15: 18, figs 5–6, table 5. (28 June 1992).

Common name. Calaby’s Pademelon.

Current name. Thylogale calabyi Flannery, 1992 ; following Groves (2005d).

Holotype. M.12864 by original designation. Adult male, [Field no. 28], skull and study skin, gut and gut content in alc., collected 9 December 1981 by T. Flannery and K. Aplin; registered 12 June 1984. [Captured by dogs].

Condition. Cranium missing left paroccipital process and the tip of right paroccipital process, missing part of right jugal bone; both dentaries missing coronoid, condylar, and angular processes. Study skin has bald patch on the dorsal surface of the neck area, scrotum missing, no long bones present in limbs. The study skin is in good condition; body proportions distorted during taxidermy process.

Type locality. South side of Neon Basin (alt. 3000 m), Mt Albert Edward, Central Province, Papua New Guinea.

Paratypes. (3, by original designation): collection locality and collectors as per holotype: M.12865, female, skull and study skin, collected 9 December 1981; M.12866, female, skull and flat skin, collected 7 December 1981; M.12891, juvenile female, cranium and dentaries, collected on 6 December 1981.

Comments. Four specimens in the type series. Recent genetic analyses indicate the need for further clarification of the taxonomic status of this entity, see Eldridge & Coulson (2015).