Dasyurus penicillatus É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1804

(Figs 9; 80)

Dasyurus penicillatus É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1804a: 361 .

COMMON NAME. — Brush-tailed Phascogale .

CURRENT NAME. — Phascogale tapoatafa (Meyer, 1793) .

See Jackson & Groves (2015: 64).

COLLECTOR/S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, contra de Beaufort (1966: 519) who mentioned both Péron and Lesueur as its collectors. COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Near Port Jackson (Sydney), New South Wales. COLLECTION DATE. — Between 3 July and 18 November 1802. SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — MNHN-ZM-MO-1996-2099 (Fig. 9), holotype, skin mount.

OTHER NUMBER/S. — Anc. Cat. Gal. 244, Nouv. Cat. Gal. 385 (de Beaufort 1966: 519).

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80108 (Fig. 80; two living animals).