Sminthopsis virginiae (de Tarragon, 1847)

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

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scientific name	Sminthopsis virginiae (de Tarragon, 1847)
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Sminthopsis virginiae (de Tarragon, 1847) View in CoL . Rev. Zool. Paris, p. 177.

TYPE LOCALITY: None given; Archer (1981:132) designated Australia, Queensland, Herbert Vale .

DISTRIBUTION: N Queensland, N Northern Territory ( Australia); Aru Isis ( Indonesia); S New Guinea.

STATUS: Unknown.

SYNONYMS: iumholtzi, nitela, rona, rufigenis.

COMMENTS: See Archer (1979:329, 1981: 132) and Kirsch and Calaby (1977:15). De Tarragon's 1847 description of S. virginiae did not specify a type locality and his type specimen, now lost, had no known locality. Collett (1886 [1887]:548) named S. nitela from Herbert Vale and it was subsequently renamed S. Iumholtzi, both of which are referable to virginiae ; see Archer (1981: 136).

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.

Collett, R. 1886 [1887]. On Phascogale viginiae, a rare pouched mouse from Northern Queensland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1886: 548 - 549.

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.