Podabrus mitchelli Krefft 1867
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Description
Podabrus mitchelli Krefft, 1867a
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1866: 433. (25 April 1867).
Common name. White-footed Dunnart.
Current name. Sminthopsis leucopus ferruginifrons (Gould, 1854), following Jackson & Groves (2015).
Holotype. PA.657 by subsequent determination. Dried skin, not found, entered in the Palmer Register in c. 1878 and listed as Antechinus mitchelli, the only other data entered by Palmer are: “dry skin in bottle Mitchell’s expedition”.
Comments. Krefft (1867a) states that he had “a single, much mutilated specimen, with a note attached that it came from the great explorer, I found in a heap of rubbish some years ago”. Archer (1981) states that Krefft’s specimen was not found in the AM Collection. We have not located PA.657, which we believe is Krefft’s original specimen, and its fate remains undetermined. Krefft stated that “the skull is perfect” and gave the locality as “interior of New South Wales?”. The original entry by Palmer for PA.657 does not list a skull. Iredale & Troughton (1934) stated that the type was in the AM but there is no entry for this taxon in the unpublished type list of Troughton (1956), a list that appears to have been prepared in the 1930s.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Dasyuridae
- Genus
- Podabrus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Dasyuromorphia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Krefft
- Species
- mitchelli
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Podabrus mitchelli Krefft, 1867 sec. Parnaby, Ingleby & Divljan, 2017
References
- Krefft, G. 1867 a. On the classification of the small Dasyuridae of Australia, with descriptions of two new genera and one new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 34 (1866): 431 - 435, pl. xxxvi.
- Gould, J. 1854. The Mammals of Australia. Part 6. London: John Gould.
- Archer, M. 1981. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 104. Revision of the dasyurid marsupial genus Sminthopsis Thomas. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 168 (2): 61 - 224.
- Troughton, E. [L. G.] 1956. Typical specimens of mammals [list of mammal type specimens in AM collection]. Australian Museum Archives: AMS 186 / 4. Typescript manuscript signed by Troughton and dated 24 th July, 1956. 3 pp.