Slender-tailed Dunnart: Female, Hind Feet Sole

Slender-tailed Dunnart (Sminthopsis murina)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia)

Order:

Carnivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphia)

Family:

Carnivorous Marsupials (Dasyuridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Slender-tailed Dunnart (Sminthopsis murina)

This Photo:

🔍Female, Hind Feet Sole🔎

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Riverland and possibly elsewhere
These were found on an expedition North of here, with a team of people helping with id's.
We ask that you do not try this without expert supervision. It'd be easy to injure the animal, or get bitten.
A small mouse like marsupial. Females have a pouch
The soles of the rear feet have diagnostic pads.

This species is classed as

NT (Near Threatened)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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