Species Sminthopsis psammophila Spencer, 1895

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• Sminthopsis psammophila Spencer, B. 1895. Preliminary notice of two new species of marsupials from Central Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 7: 222-224 [223] [as Sminthopsis psammophilus].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV C6203 ♂ spirit specimen & skull, between Kurtitina Well and Ayers Rock, NT.

  Type locality references:

  Spencer, B. 1896. Through Larapinta Land: a narrative of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia. pp. xiii-xviii 1-136 in Spencer, B. (ed.). Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Pt 1 Introduction, narrative, summary of results, supplement to zoological report, map. Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade. [83-85].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gawler (GAW), Hampton (HAM), Nullarbor (NUL)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, hummock grassland, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Desert sandhill country, mallee-broombush vegetation with hummock grassland.

General References

Aitken, P.F. 1971. Rediscovery of the Large Desert Sminthopsis (Sminthopsis psammophilus Spencer) on Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Victorian Naturalist 88: 103-111

Archer, M. 1979. The status of Australian dasyurids, thylacinids and myrmecobiids. pp. 29-43 in Tyler, M.J. (ed.). The Status of Endangered Australasian Wildlife. Adelaide : Royal Zoological Society of South Australia.

Hart, R.P. & Kitchener, D.J. 1986. First record of Sminthopsis psammophila (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 139-144

Hart, R.P. & Kitchener, D.J. 1986. First record of Sminthopsis psammophila (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 139-144

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp.

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp.

Pearson, D.J. 1995. Sandhill Dunnart Sminthopsis psammophila. pp. 154-155 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Pearson, D.J. & Robinson, A.C. 1990. New records of the sandhill dunnart, Sminthopsis psammophila (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in South and Western Australia. Australian Mammalogy 13: 57-59

Common Name References

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

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