Sminthopsis granulipes Troughton, 1932a

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 311

Sminthopsis granulipes Troughton, 1932a

Rec. Aust. Mus. 18(6): 350, fig. 1. (20 April 1932).

Common name. White-tailed Dunnart.

Current name. Sminthopsis granulipes Troughton, 1932a ; following Jackson & Groves (2015).

Holotype. PA.669 by original designation. Adult female, skull, body in alc., tongue and palate in alc., entered in register in c. 1878. See above account of Podabrus albocaudatus Krefft for details of P Register entries against this specimen.

Condition. Cranium missing occipital area, fractured left parietal bone and temporal bone; hole in ramus of left dentary, right dentary complete. Parts of dried brain are still in the skull. Body in alc.: dorsal fur slip mid back and adjoining flank.

Type locality. “King George’s Sound, south Western Australia ” ( Troughton, 1932a). It is possible that the holotype was not collected in the immediate vicinity of King George Sound, but from an undetermined adjoining region, presumably inland ( Parnaby et al., 2015) .

Comments. Description based on the holotype only. Troughton’s granulipes is based on a specimen that we believe to be the holotype of Podabrus albocaudatus Krefft, 1872c . Troughton’s name is therefore a junior objective synonym and it was designated a nomen protectum by Parnaby et al. (2015). In his original account Troughton noted the following entry in the Palmer Register: “In the handwriting of the original entry is written a specific name which indicated that it was regarded as new …”. This entry includes the name Podabrus albocaudatus (see account for that taxon above) which was validly published by Krefft (1872c). Troughton was probably not aware of the newspaper account of Krefft (1872c) or if he was, might not have considered it to be validly published.