Setonix brachyurus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1830) . In Dumont d'Urville, Voy...de Astrolabe, Zool., lfL'Homme, Mamm. Oiseaux):114.

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

DISTRIBUTION: SW Western Australia, Rottnest Isl, and Bald Isl (Australia).

STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: brevicaudatus .