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Tarsipes spenserae Gray, 1842

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Marsupialia, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 18-51 : 51

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 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353009

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7203150

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scientific name

 Tarsipes spenserae Gray, 1842
status

 

Tarsipes spenserae Gray, 1842 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 9: 40.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Western Australia, King George's Sound (Albany) .

DISTRIBUTION: S.W. Western Australia.

COMMENT: T. spenserae is considered a misspelling by JAWK because the name was presented as a patronym for Spencer. Gray, 1842, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 9:40 misspelled the name as spenserae in the original description and therefore it must be retained (BJM). Mahoney, 1981, Aust. Mammal., 4: 135-138, presented evidence that Tarsipes restrains Gervais and Verreaus, 1842 , predates T. spenserae Gray, 1842 .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301402009001001001.

Gray, J. E. 1842. Description of two new species of Mammalia discovered in Australia by Captain George Gray (Tarsipes Spenserae and Chaeropus castanotis). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [ser. 1], 9: 39 - 42.

Mahoney, J. A. 1981. The specific name of the honey possum (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae: Tarsipes rostratus Gervais and Verreaux, 1842). Australian Mammalogy, 4: 135 - 138.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

SuperOrder

Marsupialia

Order

Marsupialia

Family

Tarsipedidae

Genus

Tarsipes

Specimens