Subspecies Sminthopsis leucopus leucopus (Gray, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phascogale leucopus Gray, J.E. 1842. Descriptions of some new genera and fifty unrecorded species of Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 10: 255-267 [261].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 41.1812 & 43.5.31.15 ♂ skin (41.1812) & skull (43.5.31.15), TAS.

  Type locality references:

  Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls. [3 Nov. 1888] [303].
• Antechinus (Podabrus) leucogenys Higgins, E.T. & Petterd, W.F. 1883. Descriptions of hitherto undescribed Antechini and Muridae inhabiting Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1882: 171-176 1 pl. [publication date established from Anon. 1953. Annual Report, 1952. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 87: ii–viii [vi]] [172].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ (not found in TMH or QVM), Ringarooma, TAS.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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

Generic Combinations

• Sminthopsis leucopus leucopus (Gray, 1842).

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, closed forest, nocturnal, open forest, open heath, predator, swamp, terrestrial, tussock grassland, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Occasionally arboreal, generally in tussock grassland in coastal habitats, in woodland, open forest, scrub, and heath where under- and mid-storey cover is more than 50%

History of changes