Subspecies Sminthopsis leucopus ferruginifrons (Gray, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Antechinus ferruginifrons Gould, J. 1854. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 6. [text to 16th pl. of Pt 6] [= text to Vol. 1 pl. 36].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 54.11.19.3 ♂ skin & skull, probably the coast district to the north of Sydney, NSW.
• Podabrus mitchelli Krefft, G. 1867. On the classification of the small Dasyuridae of Australia, with descriptions of two new genera and one new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 431-435 [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84 [71–84]] [433].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM (not found; Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122 [11] record that the holotype is in the AM), 'interior of NSW?'.
• Antechinus ferrugineifrons Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls. [3 Nov. 1888] [302] [invalid emendation for Antechinus ferruginifrons Gould, 1854].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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

Generic Combinations

• Sminthopsis leucopus ferruginifrons (Gray, 1842).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, closed forest, nocturnal, open forest, open heath, predator, swamp, terrestrial, tussock grassland, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Occasionally arboreal, generally in tussock grassland in coastal habitats, in woodland, open forest, scrub, and heath where under- and mid-storey cover is more than 50%

History of changes