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{{Short description|Species of marsupial}}
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| name = Little red kaluta<ref name=MSW3>{{MSW3 Groves|pages=24}}</ref>▼
| image =
| status = LC
| status_system = iucn3IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{IUCN2008|assessors=Burbidge, A.|year=2008|id=40527|title=Dasykaluta rosamondae|downloaded=28 December 2008}}</ref>
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Burbidge, A. |date=2016 |title=''Dasykaluta rosamondae'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T40527A21943336 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T40527A21943336.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| display_parents = 3
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| genus = '''''Dasykaluta'''''▼
| classis = [[Mammal]]ia
| parent_authority = [[Mike Archer (paleontologist)|Archer]], 1982
| infraclassis = [[Marsupialia]]
| species = '''''D. rosamondae'''''▼
| ordo = [[Dasyuromorphia]]
| binomial_authority authority = ([[W.D.L. Ride|Ride]], 1964)▼
| familia = [[Dasyuridae]]
| range_map = Little Red Kaluta area.png▼
| subfamilia = [[Dasyurinae]]
| range_map_caption = Little Red Kaluta range▼
| tribus = [[Dasyurini]]
▲ | genus = '''''Dasykaluta'''''
| genus_authority = Archer, 1982
▲ | species = '''''D. rosamondae'''''
| binomial = ''Dasykaluta rosamondae''
▲ | binomial_authority = ([[W.D.L. Ride|Ride]], 1964)
▲ | range_map = Little Red Kaluta area.png
▲ | range_map_caption = Little Red Kaluta range
}}
 
The '''little red kaluta''' ('''''Dasykaluta rosamondae''''') is a small, alsoreddish-brown, knownshrew-like as[[mammal]] thenative '''littleto reddry antechinus''',grasslands '''russetof antechinus'''northwest [[Western Australia]]. It is active at night, '''spinifexfeeding antechinus'''on orinsects simplyand other small animals. The '''kaluta''', is a [[carnivorous]] [[nocturnal]] [[marsupial]]. Itand lives inis the dryonly areasmember of [[Westernits Australia]]genus, '''''Dasykaluta'''''. Individuals are around {{convertcvt|9|–|1110|cm|in|round=0.5|abbr=on}} long and weigh from {{convertcvt|20|-to|40|g|oz|abbr=on}}. They live for about threefour years in [[captivity (animal)|captivity]]. Other common names include '''little red antechinus''', '''russet antechinus''' and '''spinifex antechinus'''.<ref name="Menkhorst2011" />
 
==Taxonomy==
The''Dasykaluta little red kalutarosamondae'' is a member of the family [[Dasyuridae]]. When it was first described by [[W.D.L. Ride]] in 1964,<ref name="Ride1964" /> the species was placed in the genus ''[[Antechinus]]''., Howeverhowever, inthe author noted the new species created difficulties with the arrangements previously published. In 1982 [[Mike Archer (biologist)|Mike Archer]] erected the genus ''Dasykaluta'' and assigned it toas [[Monotypicthe taxon|itssole own genus]]species.<ref name="Archer1982" /> It has since been shown to be most closely related to the [[Dibbler]] (''[[Parantechinus apicalis]]''), the dibbler.<ref name="MSW3" />
 
The earliest specimen was collected in 1936 by Mr. R. M. W. Bligh near Tambourah (Marble Bar) and deposited at the [[Western Australian Museum]], its dental formula leading to a tentative diagnosis of a species of ''[[Dasycercus]]'' by [[Ludwig Glauert]]. Ride examined this and a series of specimens collected by E. H. M. Ealey at Woodstock Station, also near [[Marble Bar]] in Western Australia.<ref name="Ride1964" />
"Kaluta" is an [[Indigenous Australians|Aboriginal]]{{which|date=January 2012}} name for this species, and this is reflected in the generic name ''Dasykaluta'', which means "hairy kaluta". The species name, ''rosamondae'', is a reference to [[Rosamund Clifford]], the famous mistress of [[Henry II of England]], who is said to have had red hair.<ref name=Strahan/>▼
 
▲"Kaluta" is an [[IndigenousAboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]]{{which|date=January 2012}} name adopted from the [[Nyamal language]] for this species, and this is reflected in the generic name ''Dasykaluta'', which means "hairy kaluta". The species name, ''rosamondae'', is a threefold reference to [[Rosamund Clifford]], the famous mistress of [[Henry II of England]], who is said to have had red hair, its spinifex dominated habitat resembling "a house of wonderful working, so that no man or woman might come to her ...", alluding to a maze at [[Woodstock Palace]] where the king hid her and the place of the species discovery, Woodstock Station.<ref name=Strahan"Ride1964" /><ref name="Strahan1995" />
 
==Description==
The little red kaluta is a rufous brown colour with fairly coarse fur. In body shape, it is generally similar to the [[antechinus]]es, although it has a shorter head and ears. It is also somewhat smaller than these animals.<ref name=Strahan>{{Cite"Strahan1995" book|last=Woolley|first=P.A.|year=1995|editor-last=Strahan|editor-first=Ronald|contribution=Little Red Kaluta|title=The Mammals of Australia|publisher=Reed Books|pages=57–58|isbn=0-7301-0484-2|postscript=<!--None-->}}</ref>
The species is small and robust in form, with a shaggy appearance to the uniformly russet-brown or coppery colour at the upper parts of the body; the underparts are a paler shade of the colour above.
The head and body measurement is {{Convert|90 to 105|mm}}. Ears are short and covered in fur, a little higher than the top of the head and {{Convert|11-13|mm|abbr=on}} in length; the tip of the short snout is closer to the eyes than the ears.
Their tail is relatively thick and short, from {{Convert|55 to 75|mm|abbr=on}}, sometimes swollen toward the base and tapers to a length not greater than two-thirds of the body length.
Kaluta has hind feet that measure {{Convert|15-18|mm|abbr=on}} long and covered in fur.<ref name="Menkhorst2011" />
 
The little red kaluta feeds on insects and small vertebrates. A notable habit is flicking its tail in the air as it investigates its habitat.<ref name=Strahan"Strahan1995" />
 
Male little red kalutas, like several other [[dasyurid]] species, die shortly after the September breeding season, probably due to stress. The young are born after a pregnancy of around seven weeks, and are weaned when around four months old.<ref name=Strahan"Strahan1995" />
 
==Habitat and behaviour==
The little red kaluta is foundmoderately common in the [[Pilbara region of Western Australia|Pilbara]], andthe west of the [[Little Sandy Desert]] and parts of the [[Carnarvon Basin]] in [[Western Australia]],. whereThe it[[distribution range]] is moderatelyrestricted common.to Itthis occupiessubtropical environment, where they inhabit hummocks of ''[[Triodia (plant genus)|spinifexTriodia]] grassland.<ref name=Menkhorst>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Menkhorst|year=2001|title=A Field Guide to'', the Mammalsdominant vegetation of Australia|publisher=Oxfordspinifex University Press|isbn=0-19-550870-X|page=58}}</ref>grasslands.
Kaluta live and forage on the sandy soil of the region, searching for invertebrate prey amongst the dense and tough mounds of spinifex.<ref name="Menkhorst2011" />
 
==References==
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<ref name="Archer1982">''Dasykaluta rosamondae'' (Ride, 1964). — Archer, M. 1982. Review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation, and suprageneric classification. pp. 397-443 in Archer, M. (ed.). ''Carnivorous Marsupials''. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 2 i-iv, 407 pp.</ref>
 
<ref name="Menkhorst2011">{{cite book |last1=Menkhorst |first1=P.W. |last2=Knight |first2=F. |author-link1=Peter Menkhorst |author2-link=Frank Knight |title=A field guide to the mammals of Australia |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Melbourne |isbn=9780195573954 |page=60 |edition=3rd}}</ref>
==External links==▼
▲ | name = Little red kaluta<ref name="MSW3">{{MSW3 Groves|pages=24}}</ref>
*[http://www.worldwidebase.com/zoogdieren/dasykaluta_rosamondae.shtml Dasykaluta rosamondae (in Dutch)]▼
<ref name="Ride1964">{{cite journal |last1=Ride |first1=W. D. L. |author1-link=W. D. L. Ride |title=Antechinus rosamondae, a New Species of Dasyurid Marsupial from the Pilbara District of Western Australia; with Remarks on the Classification of Antechinus |journal=The Western Australian Naturalist |date=13 March 1964 |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=58–65 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/311583}}</ref>
<ref name="Strahan1995">{{Cite book|last=Woolley|first=P.A.|year=1995|editor-last=Strahan|editor-first=Ronald|contribution=Little Red Kaluta|title=The Mammals of Australia|publisher=Reed Books|pages=57–58|isbn=0-7301-0484-2}}</ref>
}}
 
▲==External links==
{{Dasyuromorphia|D.D.}}▼
▲*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041223001310/http://www.worldwidebase.com/zoogdieren/dasykaluta_rosamondae.shtml Dasykaluta rosamondae (in Dutch)]
▲{{Dasyuromorphia}}{{Taxonbar|D.D.from=Q511104}}
 
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[[Category:Dasyuromorphs]]
[[Category:Mammals of Western Australia]]
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[[Category:Marsupials of Australia]]
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