Gilbert's Potoroo

Gilbert's Potoroo

Taxobox
name = Gilbert's PotorooMSW3 Groves|pages=58]
status = CR
trend = down
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group | year = 1996 | id = 18107 | title = Potorous gilbertii | downloaded = 6 May 2006]


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Diprotodontia
familia = Potoroidae
genus = "Potorous"
species = "P. gilbertii "
binomial = "Potorous gilbertii "
binomial_authority = Gould, 1841

Gilbert's Potoroo ("Potorous gilbertii") is an Australian marsupial that is critically endangered. It lives in a restricted area on the southwest coast of Western Australia.

The name of this animal commemorates the English naturalist and explorer John Gilbert.

The potoroo was presumed extinct for 120 years before it was re-discovered in 1994 in Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve. [http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s993634.htm] In efforts to protect the remaining population three potoroos (one male and two females) were translocated to Bald Island in August 2005 where they are free from predation. Since that time an additional four potoroos have been sent to establish a breeding colony. [cite web|url=http://www.naturebase.net/content/view/2901/770/|title=Bald Island home to two more Gilbert’s potoroos |year=2007|accessdate=2007-10-07]

References

External links

* [http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/recovery/p-gilbertii/pubs/p-gilbertii.pdf Gilbert's Potoroo (Potorous gilbertii) recovery plan]


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