Perameles bougainville Quoy and Gaimard, 1824 . Voy. "Uranie", Zool., p. 56.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Western Australia, Shark's Bay .

DISTRIBUTION: S. South Australia; N.W. Victoria; W. New South Wales; S. Western Australia; Bernier and Dorre Isis.

COMMENT: Includes fasciata; see Ride, 1970:100. Extirpated throughout most of its former mainland Australian range (BJM).

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301402004006001001.