Species Sminthopsis murina (Waterhouse, 1838)

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Generic Combinations

• Sminthopsis murina (Waterhouse, 1838).

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• 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]
• 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] [203, 241]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, low shrubland, nocturnal, open forest, open heath, predator, tall shrubland, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Marshy areas, wet fringes close to rain forest.

General References

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]

Fox, B.J. 1982. Ecological separation and coexistence of Sminthopsis murina and Antechinus stuartii (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia): a regeneration niche? pp. 187-197 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 1 i-vi, 396 pp.

Fox, B.J. 1995. Common Dunnart Sminthopsis murina. pp. 150-151 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Fox, B.J. & Archer, E. 1984. The diets of Sminthopsis murina and Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in sympatry. Australian Wildlife Research 11: 235-248

Fox, B.J. & Whitford, D. 1982. Polyoestry in a predictable coastal environment: reproduction, growth and development in Sminthopsis murina (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia). pp. 39-48 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 1 i-vi, 396 pp.

Geiser, F., Augee, M.L., McCarron, H.C.K. & Raison, J.K. 1984. Correlates of torpor in the insectivorous dasyurid marsupial Sminthopsis murina. Australian Mammalogy 7: 185-191

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] [203, 241]

Morton, S.R., Wainer, J.W. & Thwaites, T.P. 1980. Distributions and habitats of Sminthopsis leucopus and S. murina (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in Southeastern Australia. Australian Mammalogy 3: 19-30

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Common Dunnart)

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