Subspecies Antechinus flavipes flavipes (Waterhouse, 1838)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phascogale flavipes Waterhouse, G.R. 1838. Characters of some new species of the genera Mus and Phascogale. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1837: 75-77 [publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [437]] [75].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 55.12.24.75 ♂ skin & skull, N of Hunter's River.
• Phascogale rufogaster 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 41.1251 skin & skull, Adelaide and its vicinity, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wakefield, N.A. & Warneke, R.M. 1967. Some revision in Antechinus (Marsupialia)—2. Victorian Naturalist 84: 69-99

Generic Combinations

• Antechinus flavipes flavipes (Waterhouse, 1838).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

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 [27] (re-described)

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