Lesser Hairy-footed Dunnart
- Lesser Hairy-footed Dunnart
Taxobox
name = Lesser Hairy-footed Dunnart [MSW3 Groves | pages = 36] ]
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = [IUCN2006 | assessors = Australian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group | year = 1996 | title = Sminthopsis youngsoni | id = 40550 | downloaded = 2006-12-26] ]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Dasyuromorphia
familia = Dasyuridae
genus = "Sminthopsis"
species = "S. youngsoni"
binomial = "Sminthopsis youngsoni"
binomial_authority = McKenzie & Archer, 1982
The Lesser Hairy-footed Dunnart ("Sminthopsis youngsoni") is a small carnivorous Australian marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is a widespread and fairly common species, being found in many desert areas of Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland.[cite book | last = Menkhorst | first = Peter | year = 2001 | title = A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia | publisher = Oxford University Press | pages = 72] ]The Lesser Hairy-footed Dunnart is distinguished from the very similar Hairy-footed Dunnart by its smaller size and less hairy soles.References
External links
* [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1442-9993.2000.01037 Foraging Strategies of Sminthopsis youngsoni]
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