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Planigale

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Description

The genus Planigale are small carnivorous marsupials found in Australia and New Guinea. It is the only genus in the tribe Planigalini of the subfamily Sminthopsinae. There are five species:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planigale, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2435455	https://www.gbif.org/species/2435455
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40098	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40098

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Dasyuromorphia : Dasyuridae : Planigale

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Theriamorpha
-	Theriiformes
-	Trechnotheria	McKenna 1975
-	Cladotheria	McKenna 1975
-	Boreosphenida
subclass	Theria	Parker and Haswell 1897
subclass	Metatheria
-	Marsupialia
-	Australidelphia	Szalay 1982
superorder	Eometatheria	Simpson 1970
order	Dasyuromorphia	Gill 1872
suborder	Dasyuroidea	Goldfuss 1820
family	Dasyuridae	Goldfuss 1820
subfamily	Sminthopsinae	Archer 1982
tribe	Planigalini	Archer 1982
genus	Planigale	Troughton 1928

Common Name

planigale

Scientific Name

Planigale Troughton, 1928

Name Published In

Troughton, E. L. G. 1928. A new genus, species, and subspecies of marsupial mice (Family Dasyuridae). 16: 281-288. Records of the Australian Museum 16: 281-288.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Planigale	genus	belongs to Planigalinae	stated with evidence	Archer, 1982
Planigale	genus	belongs to Planigalini	stated with evidence	Krajewski et al., 1992
Planigale	genus	belongs to Dasyuridae	stated without evidence	Wroe, 1996
Planigale	genus	belongs to Dasyuridae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (40%)

First Recorded Appearance

0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Mammalia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore, carnivore (based on Dasyuridae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Theria)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level

Common Name(s)

Planigales, Planigale, Flat-skulled Marsupial 'mice'

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planigale

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Planigale gilesi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Planigale ingrami ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Planigale maculata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Common Planigale	1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Planigale novaeguineae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Planigale tenuirostris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1928	Planigale Trougthon
1982	Planigale Archer
1992	Planigale Krajewski et al. p. 20
1996	Planigale Wroe p. 1038
1997	Planigale McKenna and Bell

References

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Archer M. (1982) Review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation, and suprageneric classification, Carnivorous Marsuliaps 2, 397-443

Krajewski C., Driskell A. C., et al (1992) Phylogenetic relationships of the thylacine (Mammalia: Thylacinidae) among dasyuroid marsupials: evidence from cytochrome b DNA sequences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 250, 19-27

Wroe S. (1996) Muribacinus gadiyuli, (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia), a very plesiomorphic thylacinid from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, and the problem of paraphyly for the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia), Journal of Paleontology 70 6, 1032-1044

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Rec. Australian Mus., 16 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nowak, Ronald M., 1991: null. Walker's Mammals of the World, vol. 1, 5th ed.. 1629. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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