Subspecies Sminthopsis fuliginosus fuliginosus (Gould, 1852)

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Subspecies Sminthopsis fuliginosus fuliginosus (Gould, 1852)

Grey-bellied Dunnart

Antechinus fuliginosus Gould, J. 1852. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 4. [the date 1849 printed on the title page of Sturt, op. cit. is not the publication date of that work, see Mahoney, J.A. 1975. The identity and status of Thomas' 'lectotype' of Leporillus apicalis (Gould, 1853) [Rodentia: Muridae]. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 99: 101–104 [104]] [text to 3rd pl. of Pt 4] [= text to Vol. 1 pl. 41].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 46.4.4.59–61 (probable) skulls only, King George Sound, WA.
Type locality references:
Whittell, H.M. 1954. John Gilbert's notebook on marsupials. Western Australian Naturalist 4: 104-114 [108].
Sminthopsis griseoventer Kitchener, D.J., Stoddart, J. & Henry, J. 1984. A taxonomic revision of the Sminthopsis murina complex (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae) in Australia, including descriptions of four new species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 11: 201-248 [Oct. 1984] [204].
Type data:
Holotype WAM M24543 ♂ spirit specimen & skull, 13.2 km and 68º from Bindoon, WA 31º18´15'S, 116º01´00'E approx. 150 m.
Sminthopsis caniventer Baverstock, P.R., Adams, M. & Archer, M. 1984. Electrophoretic resolution of species boundaries in the Sminthopsis murina complex (Dasyuridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 823-832 [Dec. 1984] [823] [nom. nov. for Sminthopsis griseoventer Kitchener, Stoddart & Henry, 1984; S. griseoventer not cited by name but replaced unambiguously by S. caniventer; Baverstock et al. listed the species dealt with by Kitchener et al. (1984) in the S. murina complex with the statement 'and we follow their nomenclature here'; the name S. caniventer replaces S. griseoventer; S. caniventer was an earlier ms name used by Kitchener et al., but by adopting it in this manner Baverstock et al. establish it as a replacement name].
Sminthopsis griseoventer boullangerensis Crowther, M.S., Dickman, C.R. & Lynam, A.J. 1999. Sminthopsis griseoventer boullangerensis (Marsupialia : Dasyuridae), a new subspecies in the S. murina complex from Boullanger Island, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 215-243.
Type data:
Holotype WAM M27174 ♂ adult skull and body in spirit, Boullanger Is, WA [30°19'S 115°E].

Generic Combinations

Sminthopsis fuliginosus fuliginosus (Gould, 1852). —
Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [69]
Sminthopsis fuliginosus (Gould, 1852). —
Kitchener, D.J., Stoddart, J. & Henry, J. 1984. A taxonomic revision of the Sminthopsis murina complex (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae) in Australia, including descriptions of four new species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 11: 201-248 [Oct. 1984]

Introduction

Boullanger Island Dunnart was described as a subspecies of the Grey-bellied Dunnart Sminthopsis griseoventer in 1999, based on slight differences in morphology and molecular analyses (Crowther et al. 1999), notwithstanding previously published contradictory genetic data (Labrinidis et al. 1998). Start et al. (2006) reanalysed tissues and reassessed the morphological data, and concluded that neither the molecular nor the morphological data supported differentiation at taxonomic or evolutionally significant levels.

Distribution

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South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southwestern corner of WA

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)