#petrogale brachyotis

[animalids]

Short-eared rock-wallaby (Petrogale brachyotis) 

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[snakemanaustralia]

Australasian Journal of Herpetology 42:42-49. Published 25 April 2020. The ability to conserve a threatened species begins when they are named! New species of Rock Wallaby (Marsupialia: Macropodidae: Petrogale) from northern Australia. LSID URN:LSID:ZOOBANK.ORG:PUB:24B992B7-1FF8-463E-8EF9-579A2C63DD78 RAYMOND T. HOSER LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:F9D74EB5-CFB5-49A0-8C7C-9F993B8504AE 488 Park Road, Park Orchards, Victoria, 3134, Australia. Phone: +61 3 9812 3322 Fax: 9812 3355 E-mail: snakeman (at) snakeman.com.au Received 20 February 2020, Accepted 16 March 2020, Published 25 April 2020. ABSTRACT Numerous studies have been conducted into the phylogeny of Australia’s Rock Wallaby species within the widespread genus Petrogale Gray, 1837. In spite of these studies, well-known forms remain unnamed and therefore potentially under the radar of State and Federal wildlife conservation authorities, increasing their potential risk of decline or extinction. To rectify this situation, and in accordance with the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, two highly divergent forms are formally named herein as species and two other populations as subspecies. Formally named for the first time are Petrogale martinekae sp. nov. from the west Kimberley in Western Australia, previously regarded as a southern population of the distinctive species known as the Warabi, P. burbidgei Kitchener and Sanson, 1978. Also formally named is Petrogale hoserae sp. nov. from the southern edge of the Gulf of Carpentaria, until now treated as a divergent population of the Eastern Short-eared Rock Wallaby P. wilkinsi Thomas, 1926. Two genetically and morphologically distinct east Kimberley populations of the Short-eared rock-wallaby P. brachyotis (Gould, 1841) are formally named as subspecies, being P. brachyotis pentecostensis subsp. nov. and P. brachyotis ordensis subsp. nov.. The formal naming of these taxa now enables wildlife departments to formulate conservation plans for extant populations and reduces the risk of their extinctions arising from them being treated as one and the same as otherwise more widespread and abundant species. This paper also formally divides the genus into four subgenera based on known divergences of each major species group. Two subgenera are formally named for the first time. Keywords: Taxonomy; nomenclature; classification; Wallaby; Marsupials; Rock Wallaby; northern Australia; Australia; Western Australia; Northern Territory; Queensland; Macropodidae; Petrogale; burbidgei; brachyotis; wilkinsi; persephone; xanthopus; celeris; new subgenus; Quasipetrogale; Ferepetrogale; new species; hoserae; martinekae; new subspecies; pentecostensis; ordensis. QUASIPETROGALE SUBGEN. NOV. (HOSER 2020) LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:7780E296-D22F-4D39-83E3- 73E8CC8C9B25 Type Species: Petrogale persephone Maynes, 1982. Diagnosis: The single species within the subgenus Quasipetrogale subgen. nov. is readily separated from all other species (and subgenera within the genus Petrogale Gray, 1837) by the following unique combination of characters: ears with brownish-orange hair outside and black internally. White to pale yellowish-white or pale whitish-grey lateral stripe on upper lip, passing below eye to about level of ear with platinum or pearl grey below which arises at the corner of the mouth and passes back to the ear region. Shoulders raw sienna passing to dark brown in axillary region with rest of the dorsal surface light brown, lightly pencilled with white hairs. Chin is white and throat varies from white to off-white, chest and venter light yellow to creamy yellow. Toes of fore and hind limbs and about half of hind feet are black. Recently moulted specimens may be greyish rather than brownish in overall pelage. The species presents as a generally dark animal, made such by the overall colour combined with the black feet and black dorsal surface of the tail The tail also terminates in a white to yellowish-white tip 15-20 mm in length (in adults). Head and body length (in adults) is 52- 64 cm, tail length (in adults) 60-68 cm and weight (in adults) is 5-8 kg with males on average 60% heavier than females (adapted from Strahan 1988). The genus Petrogale is diagnosed and defined in Thomas (1888) at pages 62-64. Distribution: Living specimens are known only from a small area in Conway National Park, Dryander National Park, Gloucester Island National Park and around the town of Airlie Beach, all in Whitsunday Shire in Queensland, Australia. Etymology: Quasi means “apparently but not really; seemingly.” which fits in line with the similarity of this species and subgenus to the type species in the genus Petrogale Gray, 1837. Content: Petrogale (Quasipetrogale) persephone Maynes, 1982 (monotypic).

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[snakebusters]

New taxa formally named in Australasian Journal of Herpetology, Issue 42 Published 25 April 2020

New Genus

Rossignolius Hoser, 2020 Potoroo

New Subgenera

Sloppossum Hoser, 2020 Possum

Quasipetrogale Hoser, 2020 Wallaby

Ferepetrogale Hoser, 2020 Wallaby

New Species

Cercartetus hoserae Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Ctenophorus adelynhoserae Hoser, 2020 Dragon Lizard

Ctenophorus jackyhoserae Hoser, 2020 Dragon Lizard

Ctenophorus katrinahoserae Hoser, 2020 Dragon Lizard

Ctenophorus lenhoseri Hoser, 2020 Dragon Lizard

Ctenophorus maxinehoserae Hoser, 2020 Dragon Lizard

Ctenophorus ronhoseri Hoser, 2020 Dragon Lizard

Ctenophorus sharonhoserae Hoser, 2020 Dragon Lizard

Ctenophorus shireenhoserae Hoser, 2020 Dragon Lizard

Eudromicia adelynhoserae Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Eudromicia doriskuenae Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Eudromicia jackyhoserae Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Eudromicia richardwellsi Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Eudromicia rosswellingtoni Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Petrogale hoserae Hoser, 2020 Rock Wallaby

Petrogale martinekae Hoser, 2020 Rock Wallaby

Pseudochirops (Petropseudes) fiacummingae Hoser, 2020 Possum

Pseudochirops (Petropseudes) jamesbondi Hoser, 2020 Possum

Pseudochirops (Petropseudes) waddamaddawidyu Hoser, 2020 Possum

Potorous waddahyamin Hoser, 2020 Potoroo

New Subspecies

Burramys parvus hosersbogensis Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Burramys parvus scottyjamesi Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Burramys parvus timdalei Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Petaurus australis adelynhoserae Hoser, 2020 Glider

Petrogale brachyotis pentecostensis Hoser, 2020 Rock Wallaby

Petrogale brachyotis ordensis Hoser, 2020 Rock Wallaby

Pseudochirops (Petropseudes) archeri chrismaxwelli Hoser, 2020 Possum

Likely Synonyms (all)

Burramys hosersbogensis Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Burramys scottyjamesi Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Burramys timdalei Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Cercartetus adelynhoserae Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Cercartetus doriskuenae Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Cercartetus jackyhoserae Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Cercartetus richardwellsi Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Cercartetus rosswellingtoni Hoser, 2020 Pygmy Possum

Pseudochirops archeri chrismaxwelli Hoser, 2020 Possum

Pseudochirops chrismaxwelli Hoser, 2020 Possum

Pseudochirops fiacummingae Hoser, 2020 Possum

Pseudochirops jamesbondi Hoser, 2020 Possum

Pseudochirops waddamaddawidyu Hoser, 2020 Possum