Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Gould 1844)

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Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Gould 1844)

[Phascogale] crassicaudata Gould 1844 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1844: 105.

Type Locality: Australia, Western Australia, Williams River.

Vernacular Names: Fat-tailed Dunnart.

Synonyms: Sminthopsis centralis Thomas 1902 ; Sminthopsis ferruginea Finlayson 1933 .

Distribution: South Australia, SW Queensland, SE Northern Territory, S Western Australia, W New South Wales, W Victoria.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Forms a species-group by itself. See Archer (1979:329, 1981:176). See Cooper et al. (2000 a) for possible subspecies boundaries.