Sandhill dunnart

Sandhill dunnart
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Dasyuridae
Genus: Sminthopsis
Species:
S. psammophila
Binomial name
Sminthopsis psammophila
Spencer, 1895
Sandhill dunnart range

The sandhill dunnart (Sminthopsis psammophila) is a species of carnivorous Australian marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.[3] It is known from four scattered semi-arid areas of Australia: near Lake Amadeus in Northern Territory, the central and eastern Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, the southwestern and western edges of the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia, and at Yellabinna in South Australia.[4]

  1. ^ Woinarski, J.; Burbidge, A.A. (2016). "Sminthopsis psammophila". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T20293A21947794. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T20293A21947794.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Appendices". CITES. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  4. ^ Menkhorst, Peter (2001). A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia. Oxford University Press. p. 74.