Species Ningaui ridei Archer, 1975

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• Ningaui ridei Archer, M. 1975. Ningaui, a new genus of tiny dasyurids (Marsupialia) and two new species, N. timealeyi and N. ridei, from arid Western Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 237-249 [246].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM M8080 ♀ spirit specimen & skull, near Laverton, 38.6 km along White Cliffs Road, WA 28º30´S, 122º47´E; reported as 28º32´S, 122º43´E by Kitchener & Vicker (1981: 22).

  Type locality references:

  Kitchener, D.J. & Vicker, E. 1981. Catalogue of Modern Mammals in the Western Australian Museum 1895–1981. Perth : West Australian Museum 184 pp.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, low open shrubland, low open woodland, noctidiurnal, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually associations including hummock grassland, also vegetated dunes, sand plain, probably burrowing.

General References

Baudinette, R.V. 1994. Locomotion in macropodoid marsupials: gaits, energetics and heat balance. Australian Journal of Zoology 42: 103-124

Baverstock, P.R., Adams, M., Archer, M., McKenzie, N.L. & How, R. 1983. An electrophoretic and chromosomal study of the dasyurid marsupial genus Ningaui Archer. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 381-392

Dickman, C.R., Haythornthwaite, A.S., McNaught, G.H., Mahon, P.S., Tamayo, B. & Letnic, M. 2001. Population dynamics of three species of dasyurd marsupials in arid central Australia: A 10-year study. Wildlife Research 28: 493-506

Fanning, F.D. 1982. Reproduction, growth and development in Ningaui sp. (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia) from the Northern Territory. pp. 23-37 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 1 i-vi, 396 pp. (Archer, in p. ix of Introduction provides identification of this Ningaui as N. ridei)

Huang, C. 1987. Detection of prey by captive Ningaui ridei and Sminthopsis griseoventer (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Australian Mammalogy 10: 47-50

Johnson, K.A. & Roff, A.D. 1980. Discovery of Ningauis (Ningaui sp.: Dasyuridae: Marsupialia) in the Northern Territory, Australia. Australian Mammalogy 3: 127-129 (field notes and observations)

Kitchener, D.J., Cooper, N. & Bradley, A. 1986. Reproduction in the male Ningaui (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Australian Wildlife Research 13: 13-25

Kitchener, D.J., Stoddart, J. & Henry, J. 1983. A taxonomic appraisal of the genus Ningaui Archer (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae), including description of a new species. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 361-379 (extensions of known range and reappraisal of habitat)

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

McKenzie, N.L. & Dickman, C.R. 1995. Wongai Ningaui Ningaui ridei. pp. 116-117 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

McKenzie, N.L. & Hall, N.. 1992. The biological survey of the eastern goldfields of Western Australia: kurnalpi-Kalgooli study area. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement No. 41.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Wongai Ningaui)

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