Long-tailed planigale

Maker
Frederic Wood Jones (b.1879, d.1954)
Date
Circa 1930-1937
 Description
Specimen of a long-tailed planigale (Planigale ingrami). The jar bears the description, 'PH. INGRAMI' - referring to a superceded genus name for this animal, 'Phascogale' into which this species was initially placed, by Oldfield Thomas in 1906. The genus Planigale was created for this animal in 1928. The specimen is preserved in fluid and contained in a rectangular, glass battery jar. The Long-tailed Planigale is a small, carnivorous marsupial that inhabits varied habitats in Australia's Top End. It is the smallest of all marsupials, and one of the smallest of all mammals.
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Object detail

Maker
Date
Circa 1930-1937
Accession number
516-500081
Inscriptions
other id/inscriptions ▫ PH. INGRAMI, 9.2.1005
Object type
animal tissue
Named Collection
Frederic Wood Jones Collection
Harry Brookes Allen Museum Anatomy Category
Marsupial carnivores (Dasyuromorphia)
Comparative anatomy
Museum
Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology

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