Boodie
Bettongia lesueur (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Also calledBetong de Australia Noroccidental (spa) · Bettong de Lesueur (fra) · Bettongie de Lesueur (fra) · Canguro-rata de Lesueur (spa) · Gravebettong (nob) · Kangourou-rat de Lesueur (fra) · Leseurborstelstaartkangoeroerat (nld) · Lesueur-BUrstenrattenkanguru (deu) · Lesueur-Bürstenkänguru (deu) · Lesueur-Rattenkänguru (deu) · Westliches Bürstenkänguru (deu) · betong-escavador (por) · kaivajakenguru (fin) · kanguroszczurnik ryjący (pol)
First described in: In de Freycinet, Voy. autour du monde...Uranie et al Physicienne, Zool. p.64
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
materials_examined
MZUT T 510 (702); mount; male ad.; Australia; I / 1845; purchased by G. A. Frank MZUT T 511 (1131); mount; unsexed ad.; Australia; 1867; Pirocorvetta “ Magenta ” expedition.
Revised catalogue of monotremes and marsupials in the historic mammal collection housed at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali of Torino, Italy
conservation
Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U. S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Extinct as B. l. graii, otherwise Vulnerable. Rare.
Order Diprotodontia
discussion
Discussion: Commonly misspelt " lesueuri ", but the original spelling is lesueur, with no indication that it is an error.
Order Diprotodontia
distribution
Distribution: Formerly in Dampier Land (Western Australia), South Australia, Dirk Hartog Isl, Barrow Isl, Bernier and Dorre Isls, Northern Territory, and SW New South Wales (Australia); now extinct except on W Australian Isls.
Order Diprotodontia
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Bettongia lesueur in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2440023.