Kakadu Dunnart

Taxobox
name = Kakadu DunnartMSW3 Groves|pages=33]
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group | year = 1996 | title = Sminthopsis bindi | id = 40551 | downloaded = 2007-06-19]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Dasyuromorphia
familia = Dasyuridae
genus = "Sminthopsis"
species = "S. bindi"
binomial = "Sminthopsis bindi"
binomial_authority = Van Dyck, Woinarski & Press, 1994

The Kakadu Dunnart ("Sminthopsis bindi") is a dunnart that was described in 1994 and the closest relative is the Carpentarian Dunnart. Its typical body length is 50-85mm long with a tail of 60-105mm for a total length of between 110-190mm, and a weight of between 10-25g, placing this species in the mid-range of the weight of all the dunnarts. Its colour is grey, gingery on the upper body and underbelly with white feet.cite book|title=Mammals of Victoria|first=Peter W.|last=Menkhorst|publisher=Oxford Press|year=1995|id=ISBN 0-19-553733-5 | pages = pg 70]

The Kakadu Dunnart's distribution is the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia around the Kakadu National Park, and it prefers a habitat of stony woodlands on hilly geography.

Little is known about the social organisation or breeding habits of this species, as it is not well studied, but it probably breeds in the dry season and may burrow.

Its diet may include arthropods and other insects.

References

External links

* [http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/details.pl?pstrVol=MARSUPIALIA;pstrTaxa=792;pstrChecklistMode=1 Australian Biological Resources Study]
* [http://www.innvista.com/science/ecology/natpark/kakadu.htm Kakadu National Park]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/25/wtoad25.xml Invasion of the killer toads threatens Outback heritage]