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
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10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653
2201-4349
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Sminthopsis murina ooldea
Troughton, 1965a
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.
89(3): 316, figs 5a–c. (
7 May 1965
).
Common name
. Ooldea Dunnart.
Current name
.
Sminthopsis ooldea
Troughton, 1965a
; following Jackson & Groves (2015).
Holotype
. M.7502 by original designation. Male sub-adult, skull, body in alc., purchased from H. E. Green, registered in
June 1949
. Collection date not given. The register states that Green was from the “United Aborigines Mission”.
Condition
. Damaged and incomplete skull, in poor condition: zygomatic arches and whole of posterior of skull shrunken and deformed, apparently by decalcification, missing left nasal bone; both dentaries missing coronoid processes and condyles. Body in alc.: fur slip on the left side.
Type locality
. Ooldea,
South Australia
.
Comments
. Description evidently based on the
holotype
only.
Archer (1981)
provides illustrations of the
holotype
cranium and dentaries.
Figure 12. Skull of AM B.9579, holotype of
Sminthopsis monticola
Troughton, 1965a
. (Photography by Sally Cowan).
Order
Peramelemorphia