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Sminthopsis Thomas 1887

Description

Sminthopsis Thomas, 1887. Ann. Mus. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, 4:503.

COMMENT: Includes Antechinomys as a subgenus; formerly considered a valid genus by Archer, 1977, Mem. Queensl. Mus., 18: 17-29, but considered a subgenus by Archer, 1979, Aust. Zool., 20(2):329; see also Kirsch and Calaby, 1977:15. An additional undescribed species has been reported from S. New Guinea and N. Australia; see Archer, 1979, in Tyler, ed., The Status of Endangered Australasian Wildlife and Waithman, 1979, Aust. Zool., 20(2):313-326. Revised by Archer, 1981.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301402002014000000 as Sminthopsis.

5301402002009000000 as Antechinomys.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Marsupialia, pp. 18-51 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353009

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Thomas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Marsupialia
Family
Dasyuridae
Genus
Sminthopsis
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Sminthopsis Thomas, 1887 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Archer, M. 1979. Two new species of Sminthopsis Thomas from northern Australia, S. butleri and S. douglasi. Australian Museum Zoologist, 20: 327 - 345.
  • Kirsch, J. A. W., and J. H. Calaby. 1977. The species of living marsupials: An annotated list. Pp. 9 - 26, in The biology of marsupials (B. Stonehouse and D. Gilmore, eds.). University Park Press, Baltimore, 486 pp.
  • Waithman, J. 1979. A report on a collection of mammals from southwest Papua. 1972 - 1973. Australian Zoologist, 20: 313 - 326.
  • 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.