Species Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Gould, 1844)
Fat-tailed Dunnart
Generic Combinations
- Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Gould, 1844).
Introduction
Subspecies not identified in Mahoney & Ride (1988: 29), synonymies followed Archer (1981: 176, 181) and Morton & Alexander (1982).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Burrower, low open woodland, low shrubland, nocturnal, open heath, open scrub, predator, subtropical, tussock grassland, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Grassland, grassy farmland, invertebrate diet.
General References
Archer, M. 1981. Systematic revision of the dasyurid marsupial genus Sminthopsis Thomas. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 18: 61-224
Bennett, J.H., Breed, W.G. Hayman, D.L. & Hope, R.M. 1990. Reproductive and genetical studies with a laboratory colony of the dasyurid marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata. Australian Journal of Zoology 37: 207-222
Bennett, J.H., Smith, M.J., Hope, R.M. & Chesson, C.M. 1982. Fat-tailed dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata: establishment and maintenance of a laboratory colony. pp. 38-44 in Evans, D.D. (ed.). The Management of Australian Mammals in Captivity. Proceedings of the Scientific Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society, Healesville, Victoria, February 1979. Melbourne : Zoological Board of Victoria 194 pp.
Bishop, N., Bulbert, M., Carr, S., Kroker, S.& Millikan, J. 1995. Sonographic analysis of vocalisations in captive dunnarts, Sminthopsis crassicaudata. Australian Mammalogy 18: 99-100
Breed, W.G., Taggart, D.A., Bradtke, V., Leigh, C.M., Gameau, L. & Carroll, J. 1994. Effect of cryopreservation on development and ultrastructure of preimplantation embryos from the dasyurid marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 100: 429-438
Breed, W.G. & Leigh, C.M. 1990. Morphological changes in the oocyte and its surrounding vestments during in vivo fertilization in the dasyurid marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata. Journal of Morphology 204: 177-196
Brooker, B.M., O'Shea, J.E. & Stewart, T. 1995. Renal vasculature of two dasyurid marsupials, Sminthopsis dolichura and S. crassicaudata. Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 259-270
Frey, H. 1991. Energetic significance of torpor and other energy-conserving mechanisms in free-living Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 689-708
Harman, A.M. 1995. The optic chiasm of Australian marsupials. Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 467-477
Haynes, J.I. 1991. Cervical lymph nodes and mast cells in the marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata. Anatomical Records 231: 7-13
Haynes, J.I. & Skidmore, J.W. 1991. Haematology of the dasyurid marsupials Sminthopsis crassicaudata and Sminthopsis macroura. Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 157-169
Holland, R.A.B., Calvert, S.J., Hope, R.M. & Cheson, C.H. 1994. Blood oxygen transport in newborn and adult of a very small marsupial (Sminthopsis crassicaudata). Respiration Physiology 98: 69-82
Holloway, J.C. & Geiser, F. 1995. Influence of torpor on daily energy expenditure of the dasyurid marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 112: 59-66
Hope, P.J., Pyle, D., Daniels, C.B., Chapman, I., Horowitz, M., Morley, J.E., Trayhurn, P., Kumaratilake, J. & Wittert, G. 1997. Identification of brown fat and mechanisms for energy balance in the marsupial, Sminthopsis crassicaudata. American Journal of Physiology 273: 161-167
Hope, P.J., Wittert, G.A., Chapman, I., Morley, J. & Horowitz, M. 1998. Decreased glucose utilisation does not increase food intake in the marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata. Physiology and Behaviour 63: 31-34
Morton, S.R. 1978. An ecological study of Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Parts I, II and III. Australian Wildlife Research 5: 151-211
Morton, S.R. 1995. Fat-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata. pp. 129-131 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
Morton, S.R., Denny, M.J.S. & Read, D.G. 1983. Habitat preferences and diets of sympatric Sminthopsis crassicaudata and S. macroura (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Australian Mammalogy 6: 29-34
Morton, S.R. & Alexander, F. 1982. Geographic variation in the external morphology of Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia). pp. 695-698 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 2 i-iv, 407 pp.
Read, D.G. 1984. Movements and home ranges of three sympatric dasyurids, Sminthopsis crassicaudata, Planigale gilesi, and P. tenuirostris (Marsupialia), in semiarid western New South Wales. Australian Wildlife Research 11: 223-234
Read, D.G. 1987. Habitat use by Sminthopsis crassicaudata, Planigale gilesi and P. tenuirostris (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in semiarid New South Wales. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 385-395
Roberts, C.T. & Breed, W.G. 1994. Embryonic-maternal cell interactions at implantation in the fat-tailed dunnart, a dasyurid marsupial. Anatomical Records 240: 59-76
Roberts, C.T. & Breed, W.G. 1994. Placentation in the dasyurid marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata, the fat-tailed dunnart, and notes on placentation of the didelphid, Monodelphis domestica. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 100: 105-113
Roberts, C.T. & Breed, W.G. 1996. The marsupial shell membrane - an ultrastructural and immunogold localization study. Cell and Tissue Research 284: 99-110
Sinclair, R.G. & Bird, P.L. 1984. The reaction of Sminthopsis crassicaudata to meat baits containing 1080: implications for assessing risk to non-target species. Australian Wildlife Research 11: 501-507
Wilkins, R.T. 1983. Photoreactivation of UV damage in Sminthopsis crassicaudata. Mutation Research 111: 263-276
Woolley, P.A. & Watson, M.R. 1984. Observations on a captive outdoor breeding colony of a small dasyurid marsupial Sminthopsis crassicaudata. Australian Wildlife Research 11: 249-254
Common Name References
ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Fat-tailed Dunnart)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 02-Sep-2019 | 29-Oct-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 15-Oct-2010 | 15-Oct-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 07-Feb-2024 | 15-Oct-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |