Carpentarian dunnart
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Dasyuromorphia
Family:	Dasyuridae
Genus:	Sminthopsis
Species:	S. butleri
Binomial name
Sminthopsis butleri Archer, 1979
Carpentarian dunnart range

The Carpentarian dunnart (Sminthopsis butleri) also known as Butler's dunnart is a marsupial with a puffy brown or mouse grey colour above and the underside of white, similar to its close relative the Kakadu dunnart. Head to anus length is 75-88mm with a tail of 72-90mm long for a total length of 147-178mm. Weight varies from 10-20g depending on a variety of factors including sex, food abundance, habitat etc.

Found in the Northern Kimberley's near Kalumburu in Western Australia and Bathurst and Melville Island in the Northern Territory. Habitat consists of eucalyptus and melaleuca forest with sandy soils up to and including 20 km from the coast.

May breed in the dry season but needs more study.

No information, but most likely insects and small vertebrates.

• Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 34. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
• Menkhorst, Peter W. (1995). Mammals of Victoria. Oxford Press. ISBN 978-0-19-553733-8.

• Australian Biological Resources Study^{[permanent dead link]}
• Australianfauna.com
• National Multi-species Recovery Plan for the Carpentarian Antechinus
• Recovery plan
• Threatened species of the Northern Territory