MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Sminthopsis youngsoni

Accepted taxon: Sminthopsis youngsoni
Taxon:	Sminthopsis youngsoni
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	DASYUROMORPHIA \| Dasyuridae \| Sminthopsinae \| Sminthopsini \| Sminthopsis
Reference:	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), JHU Press, 2005.

Table 1. List of Diet Items for Sminthopsis youngsoni.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
There are no Diet Items available.

^a. Standardized values. See details for the calculations in Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaitė, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-15. [DOI]

Table 2. List of Standard Traits for Sminthopsis youngsoni.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Carnivore	Carnivore, Insectivore	– Douglas A. Kelt, James H. Brown, Edward J. Heske, Pablo A. Marquet, Stephen R. Morton, Julian R. W. Reid, Kontantin A. rogovin, Georgy Shenbrot, 1996, 'Community Structure of Desert Small Mammals: Comparisons Across Four Continents', Ecology, vol. 77, no. 3, p. 746, Patricia A. Woolley, Michael Westerman, Carey Krajewski, 2007, 'Interspecific Affinities within the Genus Sminthopsis (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae) Based on Morphology of the Penis: Congruence with Other Anatomical and Molecular Data', Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 88, no. 6, pp. 1381-1392
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Animalivore	Animalivore	– Douglas A. Kelt, James H. Brown, Edward J. Heske, Pablo A. Marquet, Stephen R. Morton, Julian R. W. Reid, Kontantin A. rogovin, Georgy Shenbrot, 1996, 'Community Structure of Desert Small Mammals: Comparisons Across Four Continents', Ecology, vol. 77, no. 3, p. 746, Patricia A. Woolley, Michael Westerman, Carey Krajewski, 2007, 'Interspecific Affinities within the Genus Sminthopsis (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae) Based on Morphology of the Penis: Congruence with Other Anatomical and Molecular Data', Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 88, no. 6, pp. 1381-1392

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Sminthopsis youngsoni.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	9	-	14	-	Freudenth…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Sminthopsis youngsoni.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)

^b. other Measurements. Source Measurements which are not listed on or mapped with the Standard Traits..

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Sminthopsis youngsoni.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Sminthopsis youngsoni	Harris,J. H., 1987, Variation in the caudal fat deposit of Microdipodops megacephalus, Journal of mammalogy	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Sminthopsis youngsoni	Kelt,D. A., 1996, Community structure of desert small mammals: comparisons across four continents, Ecology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Sminthopsis youngsoni	Turner,J., 2004, Mammals of Australia,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Sminthopsis youngsoni	Fisher,DO, 1993, Body Size-Prey Relationships in Insectivorous Marsupials: Tests of Three Hypotheses, Ecology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Sminthopsis youngsoni	Woolley,P. A., 2007, Interspecific affinities within the genus Sminthopsis (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae) based on morphology of the penis: congruence with other anatomical and molecular data, Journal of mammalogy	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Sminthopsis youngsoni	Freudenthal, M. and Martín-Suárez, E., 2013. Estimating body mass of fossil rodents. Scripta Geologica, 145, pp.1-513.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted

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