Sminthopsis Thomas, 1887

Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Dasyuromorphia, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 29-37 : 35

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Sminthopsis Thomas, 1887 View in CoL . Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, 4:503.

TYPE SPECIES: Phascogale crassicaudata Gould, 1844 .

SYNONYMS: Antechinomys, Podabrus .

COMMENTS: Includes Antechinomys as a subgenus; formerly considered a valid genus by Archer (1977), but considered a subgenus by Archer (1979:329); see also Kirsch and Calaby (1977:15). On the basis of other anatomic and isozymic data, Lidicker (1983: 1317) considered Antechinomys a distinct genus, despite similarity in dental morphology with Sminthopsis . An additional undescribed species has been reported from S New Guinea and N Australia; see Archer (in Tyler, 1979) and Waithman (1979). Revised by Archer (1981). Original name Podabrus, Gould, 1845 , is preoccupied.

References

Archer, M. 1979. Two new species of Sminthopsis Thomas from northern Australia, S. butleri and S. douglasi. Australian Museum Zoologist, 20: 327 - 345.

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.

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.

Lidicker, W. Z., Jr. 1983. Dasyurids and their kin. Science, 219 (4590): 1316 - 1317.

Tyler, M. J., (ed.). 1979. The status of endangered Australasian wildlife. Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide, 210 pp.

Waithman, J. 1979. A report on a collection of mammals from southwest Papua. 1972 - 1973. Australian Zoologist, 20: 313 - 326.