Species Sminthopsis youngsoni McKenzie & Archer, 1982

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• Sminthopsis youngsoni McKenzie, N.L. & Archer, M. 1982. Sminthopsis youngsoni (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) the Lesser Hairy-Footed Dunnart, a new species from arid Australia. Australian Mammalogy 5: 267-279 [267].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 24552 ♂ adult skin & skull, with carcass in spirit, near Edgar Ranges, N edge of Great Sandy Desert, WA, 18º49´50'S, 123º04´30'E.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, hummock grassland, low open shrubland, low open woodland, nocturnal, open scrub, predator, subtropical, tall open shrubland, tussock grassland.

Extra Ecological Information

In a wide variety of plant formations associated with sandplain and dune.

General References

Cole, J.R. & Gibson, D.F. 1990. Distribution of stripe-faced dunnarts Sminthopsis macroura and desert dunnarts S. youngsoni (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in the Northern Territory. Australian Mammalogy 14: 129-131

Masters, P. 1993. The effects of fire-driven succession and rainfall on small mammals in spinifex grassland at Uluru National Park, Northern Territory. Wildlife Research 20: 803-813

McFarland, D. 1992. Fauna of the channel country biogeographic region, south west Queensalnd. Brisbane : Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service.

McKenzie, N.L. 1981. A new dunnart from Australia's tropical sandy deserts. SWANS 11(4): 9-12

McKenzie, N.L. & Cole, J.R. 1995. Lesser Hairy-footed Dunnart Sminthopsis youngsoni. pp. 157-158 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Lesser Hairy-footed Dunnart)

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