This article is about the extinct species. For the extant species, see Greater bilby.
Lesser bilby
A stuffed lesser bilby specimen at Tring Museum
Conservation status
Extinct (1950s) (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Infraclass:
Marsupialia
Order:
Peramelemorphia
Family:
Thylacomyidae
Genus:
Macrotis
Species:
†M. leucura
Binomial name
†Macrotis leucura
Thomas, 1887[2]
historic range
The lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura), also known as the yallara, the lesser rabbit-eared bandicoot or the white-tailed rabbit-eared bandicoot, was a rabbit-like marsupial. The species was first described by Oldfield Thomas as Peregale leucura in 1887 from a single specimen from a collection of mammals of the British Museum.[3] Reaching the size of a young rabbit, this species lived in the deserts of Central Australia. Since the 1950s–1960s, it has been believed to be extinct.
^Burbidge, A.A.; Woinarski, J. (2016). "Macrotis leucura". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T12651A21967376. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T12651A21967376.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^Thomas, O. (1887). "Description of a second species of rabbit-bandicoot (Peragale)". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 19 (114): 397–399. doi:10.1080/00222938709460272.
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colonisation of Australia, there were two species. The lesserbilby became extinct in the 1950s; the greater bilby survives but remains endangered. It is currently...
widespread, bilbies are now restricted to arid parts of northwestern and central Australia. It is commonly called bilby after the lesserbilby (Macrotis...
evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): reassessment of two species and description...
echymipera, and Seram bandicoot are endangered. The desert bandicoot, lesserbilby, and pig-footed bandicoot were driven to extinction in the mid-1900s...
tenuirostris) Family Thylacomyidae Genus Macrotis (bilbies) Greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) †Lesserbilby (Macrotis leucura) Family Peramelidae Genus Isoodon:...
E Lesser rabbit bandicoot (lesserbilby) Macrotis leucura Australia E Pig-footed bandicoot Chaeropus ecaudatus Australia E Rabbit bandicoot (bilby) Macrotis...
Pregill, G. K., & Olson, S. L. (1984). Fossil vertebrates from Antigua, Lesser Antilles: evidence for late Holocene human-caused extinctions in the West...
University of Chicago Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-226-31042-8. Manuel, Peter; Bilby, Kenneth; Largey, Michael (2012). Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from...
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dunnart, Sminthopsis virginiae Peramelemorphia includes the bandicoots and bilbies: it equates approximately to the mainstream of marsupial omnivores. All...
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extravaganza of Shrovetide, though this seems to have been celebrated to a much lesser extent in Britain than it was (and still is) on the continent: however,...
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the "charity and altruism of those belonging to superior races" towards lesser races. Harry Potter's's depiction of race, specifically the slavery of house-elves...
Craton, Michael. Testing the Chains. Cornell University Press, 1982, p. 70. Bilby, Kenneth (1983). "How the "older heads" talk: A Jamaican Maroon spirit possession...
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