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
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://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.
