Bettongia gaimardi (Desmarest, 1822) . Mammalogie. In Encycl. Méth., 2(Suppl.):542.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, Port Jackson .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly coastal SE Queensland and N New South Wales, south to SW Victoria; now extinct on mainland Australia; survives in Tasmania.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: cuniculus, formosus, hunteri, lepturus, minimus, phillippi, setosa, whitei.

COMMENTS: See Corbet and Hill (1980:16).