Subspecies Sminthopsis macroura macroura (Gould, 1845)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Podabrus macrourus Gould, J. 1845. Descriptions of five new species of mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1845: 77-79 [publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [438]] [79] [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 [148] erroneously nominated a lectotype for P. macrourus Gould, 1845].

  Type data:

   Holotype LIVCM D275 (probable) ♂ skin & skull (Lord Derby's Catalogue of Mammals), open plains, Darling Downs, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   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.
• Podabrus macrurus 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] [306] [unjustified emendation of Podabrus macrourus Gould, 1845].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Extent of range west not defined.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, hummock grassland, low open woodland, low shrubland, nocturnal, predator, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, tussock grassland, woodland.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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)