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The forgotten
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Gerard Krefft published popular accounts on Australian zoology in a long series of articles under the general title “Natural History” in
<emphasis id="49ACAF50FF86FFAAFE6DFE026A07D490" box="[397,593,405,430]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="284">The Sydney Mail</emphasis>
, a leading daily newspaper of the late 19th century. This included seven articles titled “The
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” published from
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, 1872. One such article (
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) included his original description of
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in which he enumerates all known species of
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, a generic name erected by
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. However,
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proposed the replacement name
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, as he recognised that
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had been applied to a genus of beetles by
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, thus predating Gould. In his original account,
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did not include illustrations or measurements of
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, and his text, reproduced in its entirety, is:
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“White-tailed
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(
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). This new species was obtained at King Georges Sound by Mr. Maxwell, the well known collector. Only one specimen was secured, so that I was unable to sacrifice it for a close examination of the teeth. The colour is the usual mouse grey, fur very soft, and the tail slightly incrassated in the middle, and covered with white hairs.”
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states that his only specimen of
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was obtained by Mr Maxwell, who is likely to be Mr George Maxwell (c.
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);
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) who resided at King George Sound (=Albany) until his death. Maxwell was known primarily as a collector of botanical and entomological specimens, but he operated a store on the jetty, from which he sold natural history specimens to fund his collecting sojourns (Heberle undated). Maxwell could have sold or donated the specimen to George Masters, then employed as a collector for the AM, who collected specimens at King George Sound and adjoining regions during two visits, 1866 (
<bibRefCitation id="1F490EB3FF86FFAAFB3BFC426D35D6D0" author="Krefft" box="[1243,1379,981,1006]" pageId="1" pageNumber="284" refString="Krefft, G. (1867) Appendix 6, List of specimens collected by Mr George Masters, assistant curator, during the year 1866. In: Thomson, E. D. (Ed.), Report of the Trustee's of the Australian Museum, for the year ending 31 of December, 1866. Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 6 - 7. Available from: http: // australianmuseum. net. au / Annual-Reports / (accessed 9 July 2014)" type="journal article" year="1867">Krefft 1867</bibRefCitation>
) and
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(AM Archive document C:40.69.13). Another possibility is that Maxwell sent the specimen to Krefft, either directly, or via botanical collectors from Melbourne, such as visits from von Mueller in the late 1860s (
<bibRefCitation id="1F490EB3FF86FFAAFF7EFBD6696AD164" author="Mueller" box="[158,316,1089,1114]" pageId="1" pageNumber="284" refString="Mueller, F. von. (1880) The late Mr Maxwell. Gardeners Chronicle (new series) 13, 433. [3 April]. Available from: http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 16491319 / (accessed 4 August 2014)" type="journal article" year="1880">Mueller 1880</bibRefCitation>
).
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We are not aware of any published citation of
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<emphasis id="49ACAF50FF86FFAAFD3CFBF26B25D140" box="[732,883,1125,1150]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="284">albocaudatus</emphasis>
Krefft
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, either as a valid name, synonym,
<emphasis id="49ACAF50FF86FFAAFAB1FBF168B5D19C" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="284">nomen nudum</emphasis>
or as a name
<emphasis id="49ACAF50FF86FFAAFE60FB1D6A4DD19C" box="[384,539,1161,1186]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="284">incertae sedis</emphasis>
, other than the oblique reference to an unpublished register entry by
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(see below), who did not cite the actual name, and a single listing by
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, who simply lists “
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,
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” but without comment on the taxonomic status. The taxon is not listed in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System database (ITIS 2014), or in any of the major taxonomic works or checklists of marsupials published since Kreffts description (
<bibRefCitation id="1F490EB3FF86FFAAFCB8FA8E6BAED00C" author="Thomas" box="[856,1016,1305,1330]" pageId="1" pageNumber="284" refString="Thomas, O. (1888) Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History), London, xiii + 401 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 56181" type="book" year="1888">Thomas 1888</bibRefCitation>
; Cabrera 1919;
<bibRefCitation id="1F490EB3FF86FFAAFB51FA8E6885D068" author="Iredale" pageId="1" pageNumber="284" refString="Iredale, T. &amp; Troughton, E. L. G. (1934) A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Australian Museum Memoir, 6, 1 - 122. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1967.6.1934.516" type="journal article" year="1934">Iredale &amp; Troughton 1934</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="1F490EB3FF86FFAAFF3DFAA96906D068" author="Tate" box="[221,336,1342,1366]" pageId="1" pageNumber="284" refString="Tate, G. H. H. (1947) Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 56. On the anatomy and classification of the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 88 (3), 102 - 155. Available from: http: // hdl. handle. net / 2246 / 1836 (accessed 9 July 2014)" type="journal article" year="1947">Tate 1947</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="1F490EB3FF86FFAAFEBBFAAA6A44D068" author="Troughton" box="[347,530,1341,1366]" pageId="1" pageNumber="284" refString="Troughton, E. [L. G.] (1965) A review of the marsupial genus Sminthopsis (Phascogalinae) and diagnoses of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 89 (3), 307 - 321. Available from: http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 34904545 (accessed 9 July 2014)" type="journal article" year="1965">Troughton 1965</bibRefCitation>
;
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We regard Kreffts description to be both validly published under Article 8 of the
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, and an available name under Article 12.1, i.e. it is not a
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. In his diagnosis of
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,
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contrasted the sparse, white hairs of the tail of his new species, which he described as being “quite different” to the bluish-grey, denser bristles of the tail of
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(Gould)
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, the only other species referred to in his diagnosis. Consequently, he regarded the white tail hairs, also mentioned in Kreffts description, to be a diagnostic feature. Although Kreffts brief description is based solely on external criteria, it nevertheless included criteria adequate to differentiate it from other taxa, namely the white tail or tail hairs. Other diagnostic criteria cited by
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for distinguishing
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from
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<emphasis id="49ACAF50FF86FFAAFCB2F9C96C46D348" box="[850,1040,1629,1654]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="284">S. crassicaudata</emphasis>
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include ear shape, skull size and robustness, the shorter pes of the former species, and the structure of the manus and pes, particularly the finer granulations of manus and pes of
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. Krefft, who had presumably examined the
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as a fresh specimen, focused on its striking tail colouration as indicated by his proposed vernacular name of White-tailed
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, also reflected by its current name of White-tailed Dunnart. Troughton, aware that the
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was an old, potentially faded specimen and the only one known at that time, placed more reliance on foot pad morphology, upon which he based his specific name, and for which he later proposed the vernacular name Granule-footed
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(
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).
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