Species Sminthopsis granulipes Troughton, 1932

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• Sminthopsis granulipes Troughton, E. le G. 1932. A new species of fat-tailed marsupial mouse, and the status of Antechinus froggatti Ramsay. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 349-353 [350] [nomen protectum; declared nomen protectum by Parnaby et al. (2015)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM 669 (Palmer Register) ♀ spirit specimen & skull, King George Sound, WA.
• Podabrus albocaudatus Krefft, G. 1872. Natural History. The native cat family, or Dasyuridae (continued). The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (new series), XIV (645), 598. [9 November]. Accessed February 2015. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yPRhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P5MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7262%2C7746776 [see Parnaby et al. (2015)] [nomen oblitum].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM, King George’s Sound (=Albany), Western Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Parnaby, H., Ingleby, S. & Divljan, A. 2015. Taxonomic status of Podabrus albocaudatus Krefft, 1872 and declaration of Sminthopsis granulipes Troughton, 1932 (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) as a protected name for the White-tailed Dunnart from Western Australia. Zootaxa 3904(2): 283–292

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, low open woodland, open heath, tall open shrubland.

Extra Ecological Information

Low heath over dwarf scrub.

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

Calver, M.C., King, D.R., Gardner, J.L. & Martin, G.R. 1991. Total food consumption of some native Australian small mammals in the laboratory. Australian Mammalogy 14: 139-141

Kitchener, D.J. 1995. White-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis granulipes. pp. 138-139 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Kitchener, D.J. & Chapman, A. 1978. Mammals of Donglocking Nature Reserve. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 6: 53-58

McKenzie, N.L., Gibson, N., Keighery, G.J. & Rolfe, J.K. 2004. Patterns in the biodiversity of terrestrial environments in the Western Australian wheatbelt. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 67: 293-336

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (White-tailed Dunnart)

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