Species profile—Sminthopsis virginiae (red-cheeked dunnart)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Dasyuridae (dasyurids) → Sminthopsis virginiae (red-cheeked dunnart)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Dasyuridae (dasyurids)
- Scientific name
- Sminthopsis virginiae (Tarragon, 1847)
- Common name
- red-cheeked dunnart
- Type reference
- Tarragon, [L.] de (1847). Description du male adulte du Colobe guereza et du Phascogale virginiae. Rev. Zool. 1847: 177-178 [177].
- WildNet taxon ID
- 795
- Alternate name(s)
- Lumholtz's marsupial mouse
Daly River sminthopsis
forehead-striped pouched mouse
Queensland stripe-faced sminthopsis
Aru Islands pouched mouse - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=795
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
