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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER DASYUROMORPHIA
--> FAMILY Dasyuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Sminthopsinae
--> TRIBE Sminthopsini
--> GENUS Sminthopsis
SPECIES Sminthopsis virginiae
| Author: | de Tarragon, 1847. | | Citation: | Rev. Zool. Paris: 177. | | Common Name: | Red-cheeked Dunnart | | Type Locality: | None given; Archer (1981:132) designated Australia, Queensland, Herbert Vale. | | Distribution: | N Queensland, N Northern Territory (Australia); Aru Isls (Indonesia); lowlands of S New Guinea. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | S. macroura species-group. See Archer (1979:329, 1981:132) and Kirsch and Calaby (1977:15). De Tarragon's 1847 description of S. virginiae did not specify a type locality and his type specimen, now lost, had no known locality. Collett (1886[1887]:548) named S. nitela from Herbert Vale and it was subsequently renamed S. lumholtzi, both being referable to virginiae according to Archer (1981:136); but nitela and probably rufigenis may be distinct species according to Blacket et al. (2001). |
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