Sminthopsis murina ooldea Troughton, 1965a

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 313-314

Sminthopsis murina ooldea Troughton, 1965a

Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 89(3): 316, figs 5a–c. (7 May 1965).

Common name. Ooldea Dunnart.

Current name. Sminthopsis ooldea Troughton, 1965a ; following Jackson & Groves (2015).

Holotype. M.7502 by original designation. Male sub-adult, skull, body in alc., purchased from H. E. Green, registered in June 1949. Collection date not given. The register states that Green was from the “United Aborigines Mission”.

Condition. Damaged and incomplete skull, in poor condition: zygomatic arches and whole of posterior of skull shrunken and deformed, apparently by decalcification, missing left nasal bone; both dentaries missing coronoid processes and condyles. Body in alc.: fur slip on the left side.

Type locality. Ooldea, South Australia.

Comments. Description evidently based on the holotype only. Archer (1981) provides illustrations of the holotype cranium and dentaries.

Order Peramelemorphia