Linette Umbrello Postdoctoral Fellow, QUT Research Associate - Mammalogy Terrestrial Zoology BSc (Hons), PhD (UWA) linette.umbrello@museum.wa.gov.au Research Documenting the diversity of Australia's smallest marsupial carnivores (Planigale, Sminthopsis, Antechninomys) Phylogeography and population genetics of dasyurid marupials in the Pilbara and adjacent bioregions. Understanding the drivers of genetic differentiation and structure resulting from aridification during the Pleistocene. Investigating the morphological distinctiveness of isolated Pilbara dasyurid populations (Planigale and Dasyurus species). Projects Slipping through the cracks: documenting the diversity of declining marsupial carnivores (Planigalinae and Sminthopsinae) in northern and central Australia [ABRS] Net Conservation Benefits Project: Conservation Systematics of the small ground-dwelling marsupials of the Pilbara Fauna. Selected Publications Umbrello, L.S., Cooper, N.K., Adams, M., Travouillon, K.J., Baker, A.M., Westerman, M. & Aplin, K.P. 2023. Hiding in plain sight: two new species of diminutive marsupial (Dasyuridae: Planigale) from the Pilbara. Australia. Zootaxa 5330 (1), 001-046. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5330.1.1 Baker, A.M., Eldridge, M.D.B., Fisher, D.O., Frankham, G.J., Helgen, K.M., Jackson, S.M., Potter, S., Travouillon, K.J. & Umbrello, L.S. (2023). Taxonomy and diversity of living Australasian marsupials In: Cáceres, N.C. & Dickman, C.R. (Eds.) American and Australasian Marsupials: an evolutionary, biogeographical, and ecological approach. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 1‒85. Westerman, M, Umbrello, L.S. & Woolley, P.A. (2023). On the composition of Antechinomys (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae): how many species? Australian Journal of Zoology 70, 95–103. Umbrello, L.S., Potter, L., Woolley, P.A. & Westerman, M. (2022). First record of Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Australian Mammalogy 44, 404–406. Umbrello, L.S., Didham, R.K., How, R.A., & Huey, J.A. 2020. Multi-species phylogeography of arid-zone sminthopsinae (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) reveals evidence of refugia and population expansion in response to quaternary change. Genes 11 (9), 963 Umbrello, L.S., Woolley, P.A., & Westerman, M. 2018. Species relationships in the dasyurid marsupial genus Pseudantechinus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae): a re-examination of the taxonomic status of Pseudantechinus roryi. Australian Journal of Zoology 65 (4), 240-247