Editing Common planigale (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
The common planigale is found from the upper [[Hunter River (New South Wales)|Hunter River]] valley not far north of [[Sydney]] along the coast and hinterland to [[Cape York Peninsula|Cape York]], and across the [[Top End]] of Australia to the [[Kimberley region of Western Australia|Kimberley]] and a little beyond. It is also found on [[Groote Eylandt]]<ref name=Menkhorst>{{Cite book
  | last = Menkhorst
  | first = Peter
  |author2=Knight, Frank
  | title = A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia
  | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]
  | year = 2001
  | location =
  | pages = 64–65
  | url =
  | doi =
  | isbn = 0-19-550870-X }}</ref> and on [[Great Keppel Island]] where its survival is threatened by proposed development. It occupies a wider range of habitat than other [[planigale]]s, living in [[sclerophyll]] forest, [[rainforest]], marshlands, grasslands and even the outer suburbs of [[Brisbane]] where it is occasionally trapped mistakenly as a [[house mouse]]. Throughout these habitats, it prefers areas with thick cover near water.<ref name=Morton>{{Cite journal|author1=Morton, S. R.  |author2=A. K. Lee | title = Thermoregulation and Metabolism in ''Planigale maculata'' (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) | journal = Thermal Biology | volume = 3 | pages = 117–120 | publisher = Pergamon Press Limited | year = 1978 | location = Great Britain | doi = 10.1016/0306-4565(78)90003-7| issue = 3}}</ref><ref name=Parker>{{Cite book| editor = Parker, S.P. | year = 1990 | title = Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals, Vol. 1 | publisher = McGraw-Hill Publishing Company | location = New York}}</ref><ref name=Fisher>{{Cite journal|author1=Fisher, D. O.  |author2=C.O. Dickman | title = Body Size-Prey Relationships in Insectivorous Marsupials: Tests of Three Hypotheses | journal = [[Ecology (journal)|Ecology]] | volume = 74 | issue = 6 |date=September 1993 | pages = 1871–1883 | doi = 10.2307/1939944 | jstor = 1939944 | publisher = Ecology, Vol. 74, No. 6|url=http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:250449/UQ250449_OA.pdf }}</ref>