Order Dasyuromorphia Author Colin P. Groves text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 29 37 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353066 1-56098-217-9 7353066 Sminthopsis longicaudata Spencer, 1909 . Proc. R. Soc. Victoria , 21 (n.s.):449 . TYPE LOCALITY: Australia , Western Australia . DISTRIBUTION: Western Australia . STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Insufficiently known. COMMENTS: Known from only four specimens ; see Ride (1970:201) .