Species Sminthopsis butleri Archer, 1979

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• Sminthopsis butleri Archer, M. 1979. Two new species of Sminthopsis Thomas (Dasyuridae: Marsupialia) from northern Australia, S. butleri and S. douglasi. The Australian Zoologist 20: 327-345 [329] [the earliest use of the name Sminthopsis butleri is by Kirsch, J.A.W. 1977. The comparative serology of Marsupialia, and a classification of marsupials. Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series 52: 1–152 [47]; a description there is furnished by Kirsch alone, although elsewhere in the work [137] he attributes the name to 'Archer, 1977'; since that time the name has been widely and consistently attributed to Archer and that attribution is maintained here under Art. 80 of the ICZN].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM M7155 ♂ skull & body in spirit, Kalumburu Mission, WA [as Kalamburu, northern Australia]; the co-ordinates of the type locality are recorded as 14º18´S, 126º38´E by Kitchener & Vicker (1981: 26) [Lat. 14°15´S, Long. 126°40´E].

  Type locality references:

  Kitchener, D.J. & Vicker, E. 1981. Catalogue of Modern Mammals in the Western Australian Museum 1895–1981. Perth : West Australian Museum 184 pp.

  Secondary source:

   Kirsch, J.A.W. 1977. The comparative serology of Marsupialia, and a classification of marsupials. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 52: 1-152.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Present on Melville and Bathurst Islands.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Northern Kimberley (NK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Shelters under debris, found in black-soil plain and sandplain heavily vegetated with eucalypts and grasses, tall mixed savannah in W Papua.

 

General References

Archer, M. 1981. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 104 Systematic revision of the marsupial dasyurid genus Sminthopsis Thomas. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 168: 61-224

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp.

Woinarski, J.C.Z., Woolley, P.A. & van Dyck, S. 1996. The distribution of the dunnart Sminthopsis butleri. Australian Mammalogy 19: 27-30

Woolley, P.A. 1995. Butler's Dunnart Sminthopsis butleri. 128 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Butler's Dunnart)

 

History of changes

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