Trichosurus vulpecula raui Finlayson, 1963

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 : 328

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scientific name	Trichosurus vulpecula raui Finlayson, 1963
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Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 87: 18, tables 1–2. (December 1963).

Common name. Common Brush-tailed Possum.

Current name. Trichosurus vulpecula vulpecula ( Kerr, 1792) , following Jackson & Groves (2015).

Paratypes. (2, by subsequent determination): M.4839 (formerly SAM M2515 View Materials ), male; M.4840 (formerly SAM M2525 View Materials ), female, both study skins and skulls, collected by H. H. Finlayson and F. J. Rau in August 1928 from Rocky River, Flinders Island, South Australia, received from South Australian Museum in 1930 .

Comments. Although the two AM specimens were sent from SAM three decades before publication of Finlayson’s paper, they evidently form part of the original series of 30 specimens he referred to in his description. Aitken (1976) states that two paratypes were sent to theAM: SAM M.2515, male and SAM M.2525, female, both skins and skulls, with same collection data and locality as the holotype (SAM M.2518) given in the South Australian Museum register. Finlayson cites the registration number of the holotype only, in his account.

References

Aitken, P. F. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum. V. Mammals. Records of the South Australian Museum 17 (11): 197 - 202.

Finlayson, H. H. 1963. The brush-tailed opossum of Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 87: 17 - 22.

Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; Class 1. Mammalia: containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the Mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young; being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturae, as lately published with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. Together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers, and illustrated with copper plates. Vol. 1, part 1. London: J. Murray & R. Faulder. xl + 400 pp., 9 pl.