Boullanger Island Dunnart

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status = CR
status_system = iucn2.3
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Australian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group | year = 1996 | title = Sminthopsis griseoventer ssp. boullangerensis| id = 20300 | downloaded = 2007-02-02]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Dasyuromorphia
familia = Dasyuridae
genus = "Sminthopsis"
species = "S. boullangerensis"
binomial = "Sminthopsis boullangerensis"
binomial_authority = Crowther, Dickman & Lynam, 1999

The Boullanger Island Dunnart ("Sminthopsis boullangerensis") is a species of dunnart found only on Boullanger Island, Western Australia. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Grey-bellied Dunnart ("S. griseoventer"), and was evaluated as such by the IUCN, which classes it as critically endangered. The EPBC Act classifies the Boullanger Island Dunnart as vulnerable. [cite web|author=Department of the Environment and Heritage|year=2007|title=Sminthopsis griseoventer boullangerensis|publisher=Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra|url=http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=66287|accessdate=2007-02-02]

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