Sandhill Dunnart

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status = EN
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group | year = 1996 | title = Sminthopsis psammophila | id = 20293 | downloaded = 2006-12-26]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Dasyuromorphia
familia = Dasyuridae
genus = "Sminthopsis"
species = "S. psammophila"
binomial = "Sminthopsis psammophila"
binomial_authority = Spencer, 1895

The Sandhill Dunnart ("Sminthopsis psammophila") is a species of small carnivorous Australian marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is known from four scattered arid areas of Australia: near Lake Amadeus in Northern Territory, the central Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, the southwestern edge of the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia, and Yellabinna Sand Dunes in South Australia.cite book | last = Menkhorst | first = Peter | year = 2001 | title = A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia | publisher = Oxford University Press | pages = 74]

The Sandhill Dunnart is one of the largest and rarest of all dunnarts. It is coloured grey to buff and is found in low parallel sand dunes, particularly near hummock grass.

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* [http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/wildlife/threatened/pdf/sandhill_dunnart_dd.pdf Threatened Species of the Northern Territory: Sandhill Dunnart]