Planigale tealei Aplin, Cooper, Travouillon & Umbrello, 2023

Umbrello, Linette S., Cooper, Norah K., Adams, Mark, Travouillon, Kenny J., Baker, Andrew M., Westerman, Mike & Aplin, Ken P., 2023, Hiding in plain sight: two new species of diminutive marsupial (Dasyuridae: Planigale) from the Pilbara, Australia, Zootaxa 5330 (1), pp. 1-46 : 32

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8248887

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/ABF8285C-BD8F-4FEE-BE79-0CE5B7995486

taxon LSID

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Plazi

scientific name

Planigale tealei Aplin, Cooper, Travouillon & Umbrello
status

sp. nov.

Planigale tealei Aplin, Cooper, Travouillon & Umbrello sp. nov.

( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 , 15–17 View FIGURE 15 View FIGURE 16 View FIGURE 17 , Tables 2 View TABLE 2 , 4 View TABLE 4 )

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Formerly referred to as ‘ Planigale sp. Mt Tom Price’ by the following authors: Blacket et al. (2000) and Westerman et al. (2016), and as ‘ Planigale sp. 2 ’ by Gibson & McKenzie (2009) and Umbrello et al. (2020).

Holotype. WAM M47923 About WAM adult male; Millstream, Western Australia, 21°17’14” S, 117°15’51” E. Collected by W. Manson, 2 nd July 1997. Spirit and skull. Specimen located in the Western Australian Museum Mammal collection, Welshpool , Western Australia. GoogleMaps

Paratypes. WAM M47841 About WAM , adult female; Tom Price , Western Australia 22°48’26” S, 117°45’00” E. Collected by S. Anstee and N. K. Cooper, 12 th November 1997. Spirit and skull. Liver tissue ABTC161752 View Materials ; pouch young from M47841 stored at ‒80 °C at WAM. GoogleMaps WAM M47683 About WAM , adult female; Tom Price , Western Australia 22°48’25” S, 117°47’03” E. Collected by S. Anstee, 15 th May 1997. Spirit and skull, note specimen selected due to intact skull, spirit specimen is in poor condition GoogleMaps . WAM M55123 About WAM , adult male; Roy Hill , Western Australia 22°25’12” S, 119°45’34” E. Collected by R. J. Teale et al., 5 th July 2004. Spirit specimen with liver and heart tissue stored at ‒80 °C at WAM. GoogleMaps

Etymology. Named in honour of Roy Teale, who has supported the work of the Western Australian Museum over many decades and collected many of the specimens used in this study.

Material examined. Refer to Table 1 for a list of all P. tealei specimens examined in this study, labelled as Planigale sp. Mt Tom Price in Table 1.

Diagnosis. Planigale tealei is considerably smaller in all external and cranial dimensions than each of P. kendricki , P. maculata , P. novaeguineae and P. gilesi . It further differs from each of these taxa in having a more depressed cranium and differs from P. gilesi in retaining upper and lower third premolars. It is slightly smaller than P. tenuirostris and further differs from this species in having a considerably more depressed cranium with a shorter rostrum. It is most similar in size and craniodental morphology to P. ingrami , but it differs from this taxon in having a longer snout and proportionally larger pes, and in lacking a distinct eye ring. The cranium differs from that of all named forms of P. ingrami in having a broadly rounded rather than square posterior nasal suture, a broader interorbital region, more rounded and elongate alisphenoid tympanic process that makes broad contact with the rostral tympanic process of the petrosal, a less flattened occiput and proportionally larger premolars.

WAM

Western Australian Museum

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Dasyuromorphia

Family

Dasyuridae

Genus

Planigale

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