Etymology

paucident planigale

Today it means: Planigale gilesi, a very small species of carnivorous marsupial endemic to desert areas of southern and eastern Australia. Full definition →

Latin paucidens
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompaucidens“having few teeth”
  2. English todaypaucident planigale

From paucident (nonce borrowing from Latin paucidens (“having few teeth”), apparently not otherwise used) + planigale (“carnivorous marsupial of genus Planigale”). Compare Translingual Paucidentomys.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.