Sminthopsis crassicaudata

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,176 meters (0 to 3,858 feet).[1]

Ecology: Fat-tailed Dunnarts are found in a variety of grasslands, shrubland, and open woodland. They also occur in farmland (Morton and Dickman 2008). Females give birth to between eight and ten young, of which an average of five survive (Morton and Dickman 2008).[2].

List of Habitats :

•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.8     Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     8     Desert   
  
•     8.1     Desert - Hot   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 28-Nov-2006

Similar Species

Members of the genus Sminthopsis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 27 species and subspecies in this genus:

S. aitkeni (Kangaroo Island Dunnart) · S. archeri (Chestnut Dunnart) · S. bindi (Kakadu Dunnart) · S. boullangerensis (Boullanger Island Dunnart) · S. butleri (Carpentarian Dunnart) · S. crassicaudata (Fat-Tailed Dunnart) · S. crassicaudata crassicaudata (Fat-Tailed Dunnart) · S. dolichura (Little Long-Tailed Dunnart) · S. douglasi (Julia Creek Dunnart) · S. fuliginosus (Sooty Dunnart) · S. gilberti (Gilbert's Dunnart) · S. granulipes (White-Tailed Dunnart) · S. griseoventer (Grey-Bellied Dunnart) · S. griseoventer griseoventer (Gray-Bellied Dunnart) · S. griseoventer nova (Boullanger Island Dunnart) · S. hirtipes (Jerboa Marsupial Mouse) · S. leucopus (White-Footed Dunnart) · S. longicaudata (Long-Tailed Dunnart) · S. macroura (Australian Stripe-Faced Dunnart) · S. murina (Dunnart) · S. murina murina (Narrow-Footed Marsupial Mouse) · S. murina tatei (Common Dunnart) · S. ooldea (Troughton's Sminthopsis) · S. psammophila (Large Desert Marsupial-Mouse) · S. virginiae (Lumholtz's Marsupial Mouse) · S. virginiae virginiae (Red-Cheeked Dunnart) · S. youngsoni (Lesser Hairy-Footed Dunnart)

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Further Reading

• A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata / by Richard Lydekker. 1896 London: E. Lloyd, 1896. url p. 178.
• A monographic study of the American marsupial, Caenolestes, by Wilfred H. Osgood, with a description of the brain of Caenolestes, by C. Judson Herrick. 14 1921 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1921. url p. 95, p. 97.
• Advances in the study of mammalian behavior / edited by John F. Eisenberg and Devra G. Kleiman. [Stillwater, Okla.]: American Society of Mammalogists; 1983. url p. 152, p. 188, p. 311.
• Anatomischer Anzeiger. Jena: G. Fischer, 1886- url p. 580, p. 589, p. 590, p. 594.
• Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta / by John Anderson, Superintendent of the Indian Museum. Calcutta, 1881-1891. url p. 27, p. 348.
• Catalogue of mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, Calcutta, 1881-1891. url , .
• Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1888. url , .
• Extinct and vanishing mammals of the Old World. Illus. by Earl L. Poole. New York, American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, 1945. url p. 30, p. 845.
• International code of zoological nomenclature = Code international de nomenclature zoologique / London: International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, c/o Natural History Museum, 1999. url p. 179, p. 50.
• Natural science. London: Macmillan & Co., [1892-1899] url p. 79.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 105, p. 191, p. 191, p. 192, p. 214, p. 215, p. 276, p. 313, p. 493, p. 497, p. 60, p. 62, p. 64.
• Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman, New South Wales [etc.]The Society. url p. 13, p. 14.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url , , , p. 1117, p. 191, p. 845.
• Proceedings of the section of sciences / Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Johannes Müller, [1899-1937]. url p. 396.
• Readings in mammalogy / selected from the original literature and introduced with comments by J. Knox Jones, Jr., and Sydney Anderson. [Lawrence, Kans.]: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1970. url p. 137.
• Science. New York, N.Y.: [s.n.]1880- url p. 199.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 492.
• The Australian zoologist. Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales url p. 149.
• The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. London, International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. url p. 127.
• The Ecology of arboreal folivores: a symposium held at the Conservation and Research Center, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, May 29-31, 1975 / Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. url p. 171.
• The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url , p. 70, p. 87.
• The mammalian fauna of Madura Cave, Western Australia: Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr. -- and William D. Turnbull --. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1975. url , , , , p. 17, p. 18, p. 20, p. 38, p. 41, p. 42, p. 48, p. 49, p. 53, p. 54, p. 56, p. 58, p. 65, p. 75, p. 76.
• The mammary apparatus of the mammalia: in the light of ontogenesis and phylogenesis / London: Methuen & Co., 1920. url , .
• Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated). Adelaide: W.C. Rigby, 1912-1937. url p. 161, p. 433, p. 434, p. 466, p. 705.
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. London: [The Society], 1879- url p. 166, p. 93, p. 98.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Burbidge, A., Robinson, T., Ellis, M., Dickman, C., Menkhorst, P. & Woinarski, J. 2008. Sminthopsis crassicaudata. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:

• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2480121
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-552637
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14103177
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 552637
• IUCN ID: 242647
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 137732

Footnotes

1. Mean = 159.450 meters (523.130 feet), Standard Deviation = 142.110 based on 578 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Burbidge, A., Robinson, T., Ellis, M., Dickman, C., Menkhorst, P. & Woinarski, J. 2008. Sminthopsis crassicaudata. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]

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