Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney
Author
Parnaby, Harry E.
Author
Ingleby, Sandy
Author
Divljan, Anja
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Records of the Australian Museum
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653
journal article
10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653
2201-4349
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Podabrus albocaudatus
Krefft, 1872c
nomen oblitum
The Sydney Mail and
New South Wales
Advertiser (new series)
vol. XIV (645): 598, col. 1 (9 November).
Common name
. White-tailed Dunnart.
Current name
.
Sminthopsis granulipes
Troughton, 1932a
; see
Parnaby
et al.
(2015)
.
Holotype
.
PA.669
by subsequent determination by
Parnaby
et al.
(2015)
—the same
specimen
as the holotype of
Sminthopsis granulipes
Troughton, 1932a
, see account for that taxon. The original writing in the Palmer Register entry for PA.669, is “
Podabrus albocaudatus
, King George Sound
, in alc.”.
Krefft (1872c)
states that he obtained his original specimen from “Mr Maxwell”. Collector not recorded in the original entry by Palmer, but subsequently, in different handwriting is added “Coll.?
George Masters
? 1869?”, probably made c. 1907 during preparation of the X Register. A later entry in Troughton’s writing states “
Sminthopsis granulipes
sp. nov.
holotype ♀”. However, the undated
AM
Archives document C:10.0.01 (AMS7 Letters Received) records purchase of one “
Podabrus sp.
” from Mr George Maxwell “of King Georges Sound” which we consider most likely refers to PA.669
.
Comments
. We regard this taxon to be a validly published, unused senior synonym of
Sminthopsis granulipes
Troughton
, see
Parnaby
et al.
(2015)
who declared the name a
nomen oblitum
.
Troughton (1932a)
designated PA.669 as the
holotype
of
Sminthopsis granulipes
.