Dunnart
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| Dunnarts[1] | |
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| Sminthopsis leucopus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
| Family: | Dasyuridae |
| Subfamily: | Sminthopsinae |
| Tribe: | Sminthopsini |
| Genus: | Sminthopsis Thomas, 1887 |
| Type species | |
| Phascogale crassicaudata Gould, 1844 |
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| Species | |
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21, see text |
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Dunnarts are furry narrow-footed marsupials the size of a mouse, members of the genus Sminthopsis. They are mainly insectivorous. A male dunnart's Y chromosome has only 4 genes, making it the smallest known mammalian Y chromosome.[2]
There are 21 species, all in Australia and some in New Guinea:
- Genus Sminthopsis
- S. crassicaudata species-group
- Fat-tailed Dunnart, Sminthopsis crassicaudata
- S. macroura species-group
- Kakadu Dunnart, Sminthopsis bindi
- Carpentarian Dunnart, Sminthopsis butleri
- Julia Creek Dunnart, Sminthopsis douglasi
- Stripe-faced Dunnart, Sminthopsis macroura
- Red-cheeked Dunnart, Sminthopsis virginiae
- S. granulipes species-group
- White-tailed Dunnart, Sminthopsis granulipes
- S. griseoventer species-group
- Kangaroo Island Dunnart, Sminthopsis aitkeni
- Boullanger Island Dunnart, Sminthopsis boullangerensis
- Grey-bellied Dunnart, Sminthopsis griseoventer
- S. longicaudata species-group
- Long-tailed Dunnart, Sminthopsis longicaudata
- S. murina species-group
- Chestnut Dunnart, Sminthopsis archeri
- Little Long-tailed Dunnart, Sminthopsis dolichura
- Sooty Dunnart, Sminthopsis fulginosus
- Gilbert's Dunnart, Sminthopsis gilberti
- White-footed Dunnart, Sminthopsis leucopus
- Slender-tailed Dunnart, Sminthopsis murina
- S. psammophila species-group
- Hairy-footed Dunnart, Sminthopsis hirtipes
- Ooldea Dunnart, Sminthopsis ooldea
- Sandhill Dunnart, Sminthopsis psammophila
- Lesser Hairy-footed Dunnart, Sminthopsis youngsoni
- S. crassicaudata species-group
[edit] References
- ^ Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 33–36. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3.
- ^ Toder R., Wakefield M.J., Graves J.A.M. (2000). "The minimal mammalian Y chromosome - the marsupial Y as a model system". Cytogenet Cell Genet 91 (1–4): 285–92. doi:10.1159/000056858. PMID 11173870.
