Antechinus (Podabrus) froggatti Ramsay, 1887a

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 : 305

Antechinus (Podabrus) froggatti Ramsay, 1887a

Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (ser. 2) 2: 552, plate xvii. (30 November 1887).

Common name. Stripe-faced Dunnart.

Current name. Sminthopsis macroura froggatti ( Ramsay, 1887a) . Status unresolved, S. macroura likely to be a species complex ( Groves, 2005b) and froggatti likely to be a full species (Jackson & Groves, 2015).

Holotype. M.8019 by subsequent determination. Female, skull, body in alc., collected by W. W. Froggatt in 1887. Registered in the AM Collection on 4 March 1959, apparently on indefinite loan from Macleay Museum. Stanbury (1969) cites MMUS registration number as M.1177.

Condition. Cranium missing both zygomatic arches, missing right auditory bulla, hole in left temporal, missing 1st upper left incisor, dentaries almost detached. Body in alc., fur slip on the left side, the specimen appears faded and there is not much internal structure to the pelvic region (appears thin).

Type locality. King Sound, near Derby, Western Australia; “Found under debris near the beach in the “dindan” scrub [= Pindan scrub] bordering King Sound, near Derby” ( Troughton, 1932a).

Comments. Description evidently based on a single specimen ( Troughton, 1941), although Ramsay gave no indication of the number of specimens or the sex of the animal(s) upon which the description is based. Troughton (1932a) redescribed what he termed the holotype of froggatti in the Macleay Museum. Registration numbers were not assigned to the Macleay Mammal Collection until the mid 1960s. Photographs of the holotype skull are given byArcher (1981), who cites the AM registration number as M.8019.