Sooty Dunnart

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status = DD
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Australian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group | year = 1996 | title = Sminthopsis fuliginosus | id = 20299 | downloaded = 2007-02-02]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Dasyuromorphia
familia = Dasyuridae
genus = "Sminthopsis"
species = "S. fuliginosus"
binomial = "Sminthopsis fuliginosus"
binomial_authority = (Gould, 1852)

The Sooty Dunnart ("Sminthopsis fuliginosus") is a species of dunnart found in Western Australia. It is one of the least-known of the dunnarts, with the IUCN classifying it as data deficient. It was formerly believed to be a subspecies of the Common Dunnart ("S. murina").

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