Subspecies Antechinus flavipes leucogaster (Gray, 1841)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phascogale leucogaster Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [407].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 41.1244 skin & skull, banks of Canning River, WA (as banks of Canning River, WA [p. 407] and Perth, WA [p. 401]), see BMNH Register.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, low open woodland, omnivore, open forest, open heath, predator, subtropical, tall open forest, terrestrial, woodland.

General References

Baker, A.M. & Van Dyck, S. 2013. Taxonomy and redescription of the Yellow-footed Antechinus, Antechinus flavipes (Waterhouse) (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Zootaxa 3649(1): 1-62 [43] (re-described)

History of changes