| Kakadu Dunnart[1] | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
| Family: | Dasyuridae |
| Genus: | Sminthopsis |
| Species: | S. bindi |
| Binomial name | |
| Sminthopsis bindi Van Dyck, Woinarski & Press, 1994 |
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| Distribution of the Kakadu Dunnart | |
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.[3]
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.[3]
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.[3]
Its diet may include arthropods and other insects.[3]