Species Antechinus stuartii Macleay, 1841
Brown Antechinus
- Antechinus stuartii Macleay, W.S. 1841. Notice of a new genus of Mammalia discovered by J. Stuart, Esq., in New South Wales. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 8: 241-243 [242].
Type data:
Neotype AM M5294 ♂ spirit specimen & skull, Waterfall, [Royal] National Park, NSW. - Antechinus unicolor Gould, J. 1854. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 6. [text 17th pl.] [= text to Vol. 1 pl. 37].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 54.11.19.2 ♂ skin & skull, probably the coast district to the N of Sydney, NSW, designated by. - Phascogale flavipes Le Souef, A.S. & Burrell, H. 1926. The Wild Animals of Australasia: Embracing the Mammals of New Guinea and the Nearer Pacific Islands. Sydney : G.G. Harrap 388 pp. [344].
Type data:
Holotype AM M2593 ♂ skin & Skull, Ebor, N NSW (as Highlands of Northern New South Wales).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Wakefield, N.A. & Warneke, R.M. 1967. Some revision in Antechinus (Marsupialia)—2. Victorian Naturalist 84: 69-99 [69] (not for subspecies)
- Dickman, C.R., Parnaby, H.A., Crowther, M.S. & King, D.H. 1998. Antechinus agilis (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae), a new species from the A. stuartii complex in south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 1-26 [5] (transfers the southern half of the range of this species to A. agilis. Most references in bibliogrogrphy refer to the A. agilis)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
IBRA
NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
Cave dweller, closed forest, open forest, open heath, predator, subtropical, tall open forest, terrestrial, tussock grassland, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Pine forest, lantana, blackberry, habitats generally with dense shrub layer, diet includes some vegetation throughout the year, may be partially arboreal.
General References
Agar, N.S. & Godwin, I.R. 1991. Red cell metabolism in brown antechinus, the bilby and the rufous hare-wallaby. Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 681-687
Blair-West, J.R., Gibson, A., McKinley, M.J. & Nelson, J.F. 1983. Water drinking and the effect of angiotensin and renin in a dasyurid marsupial (Antechinus stuartii). General and Comparative Endocrinology 52: 388-394
Bradley, A.J., McDonald, I.R. & Lee, A.K. 1980. Stress and mortality in a small marsupial (Antechinus stuartii Macleay). General and Comparative Endocrinology 40: 188-200
Braithwaite, R.W. 1974. Behavioural changes associated with the population cycle of Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia). Australian Journal of Zoology 22: 45-62
Braithwaite, R.W. 1995. Brown Antechinus Antechinus stuartii. pp. 94-97 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
Carthew, S.M. 1994. Foraging behaviour of marsupial pollinators in a population of Banksia spinulosa. Oikos 69: 133-139
Catling, P.C., Green, B. & Newgrain, K. 1989. The water fluxes of Rattus fuscipes and Antechinus stuartii before and after a prescribed fire. Australian Wildlife Research 16: 685-687
Cockburn, A. 1992. The duration of lactation in Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 40: 195-204
Cockburn, A. & Lazenby-Cohen, K.A. 1992. Use of nest trees by Antechinus stuartii, a semelparous lekking marsupial. Journal of Zoology, London 226: 657-680
Cooper, D.W. & Woolley, P. 1983. Confirmation of a new species of small dasyurid marsupial by electrophoretic analysis of enzymes and proteins. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 743-751
Croft, D.B. 1982. Communication in the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia): A review. pp. 291-309 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 1 i-vi, 396 pp.
Crowther, M.S. 2002. Distributions of species of the Antechinus stuartii-A. flavipes complex as predicted by bioclimatic modelling. Australian Journal of Zoology 50: 77-91
Davison, A. 1986. Dentition of Victorian Antechinus species (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Australian Mammalogy 9: 73-85
Dickman, C.R. 1986. Niche compression: two tests of an hypothesis using narrowly sympatric predator species. Australian Journal of Ecology 11: 121-134
Dickman, C.R. 1989. Demographic responses of Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia) to supplementary food. Australian Journal of Ecology 14: 387-398
Dickman, C.R., Green, K., Carron, P.L., Happold, D.C.D. & Osborne, W.S. 1988. Elecrophoretic identification of a new species of Antechinus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 36: 455-463
Downes, S.J., Handasyde, K.A. & Elgar, M.A. 1997. The use of corridors by mammals in fragmented Australian eucalypt forests. Conservation Biology 11: 718-726
Dunstan, C.E. & Fox, B.J. 1996. The effects of fragmentation and disturbance of rainforest on ground-dwelling small mammals on the Robertson Plateau, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Biogeography 23: 187-201
Fox, B.J. 1982. A review of dasyurid ecology and speculation on the role of limiting similarity in community organization. pp. 97-116 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 1 i-vi, 396 pp.
Fox, B.J. & Archer, E. 1984. The diets of Sminthopsis murina and Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in sympatry. Australian Wildlife Research 11: 235-248
Goldingay, R.L., Carthew, S.M. & Whelan, R.J. 1991. The importance of non-flying mammals in pollination. Oikos 61: 79-87
Goldingay, R.L. & Whelan, R.J. 1997. Powerline easements: Do they promote edge effects in eucalypt forest for small mammals? Wildlife Research 24: 737-744
Green, B., Newgrain, K., Catling, P. & Turner, G. 1991. Patterns of prey consumption and energy use in a small carnivorous marsupial, Antechinus stuartii. Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 539-547
Green, K. 1989. Altitudinal and seasonal differences in the diets of Antechinus swainsonii and A. stuartii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in relation to the availability of prey in the Snowy Mountains. Australian Wildlife Research 16: 581-592
Green, K. & Crowley, H. 1989. Energetics and behaviour of active subnivean insectivores Antechinus swainsonii and A. stuartii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in the Snowy Mountains. Australian Wildlife Research 16: 509-592
Hinds, L.A. & Selwood, L. 1990. Plasma progesterone concentrations during pregnancy in the dasyurid marsupial, Antechinus stuartii: relationship with differentiation of the embryo. Reproduction, Fertility and Development 2: 61-70
Kerr, J.B. & Hedger, M.P. 1983. Spontaneous spermatogenic failure in the marsupial mouse Antechinus stuartii Macleay (Dasyuridae: Marsupialia). Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 445-466
Körtner, G. & Geiser, F. 1995. Body-temperature rhythms and activity in reproductive antechinus (Marsupialia). Physiology and Behaviour 58: 31-36
Lazenby-Cohen, K.A. 1991. Communal nesting in Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 273-283
Lazenby-Cohen, K.A. & Cockburn, A. 1988. Lek promiscuity in a semelparous mammal, Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 22: 195-202
Lazenby-Cohen, K.A. & Cockburn, A. 1991. Social and foraging components of the home range in Antechinus stuartii (Dasyuridae: Marsupialia). Australian Journal of Ecology 16: 301-307
Lazenby-Cohen, K.A. & Cockburn, A. 1993. Intense predation by owls on lekking brown antechinus Antechinus stuartii. pp. 175-180 in Olsen, P. (ed.). Australian raptor studies. Moonee Ponds : Australasian Raptor Association, R.A.O.U. 344 pp.
Lindenmayer, D.B., Cunningham, R.B., Donnelly, C.F., Triggs, B.A. & Belvedere, M. 1994. The conservation of arboreal marsupials in the montane ash forests of the central highlands of Victoria, south-eastern Australia V. Patterns of use and the microhabitat requirements of the mountain brushtail possum Trichosurus caninus Ogilby in retained linear habitats (wildlife corridors). Biological Conservation 68: 43-51
Lunney, D., Cullis, B. & Eby, P. 1987. Effects of logging and fire on small mammals in Mumbulla State Forest, near Bega, New South Wales. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 163-181
Lunney, D. & Ashby, E. 1987. Population changes in Sminthopsis leucopus (Gray) (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) and other small mammal species, in forest regenerating from logging and fire near Bega, New South Wales. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 275-284
McAllan, B.M., Joss, J.M.P. & Firth, B.T. 1991. Phase delay of natural photoperiod alters reproductive timing in the marsupial Antechinus stuartii. Journal of Zoology, London 225: 633-646
McAllan, B.M., Roberts, J.R. & Oshea, T. 1996. Seasonal changes in the renal morphometry of Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 44: 337-354
McAllan, B.M. & Dickman, C.R. 1986. The role of photoperiod in the timing of reproduction in the dasyurid marsupial Antechinus stuartii. Oecologia (Berlin) 68: 259-264
McNee, A. & Cockburn, A. 1992. Specific identity is not correlated with behavioural and life-history diversity in Antechinus stuartii sensu lato. Australian Journal of Zoology 40: 127-133
Moritz, C. 1982. Some aspects of the ecological and genetical structure of a natural population of Antechinus stuartii (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia). pp. 685-709 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 2 i-iv, 407 pp.
Newell, G.R. & Wilson, B.A. 1993. The relationship between cinnamon fungus (Phytophora cinnamomi) and the abundance of Antechinus stuartii (Dasyuridae : Marsupialia) in the Brisbane Ranges, Victoria. Wildlife Research 20: 251-259
Poskitt, D.C., Duffey, K., Barnett, J., Kimpton, W.G. & Muller, H.K. 1984. The gut-associated lymphoid system of two species of Australian marsupial mice, Antechinus swainsonii and Antechinus stuartii. Distribution, frequency and structure of Peyer's patches and lymphoid follicles in the small and large intestine. Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science 62: 81-88
Scott, M.P. 1986. The timing and synchrony of seasonal breeding in the marsupial, Antechinus stuartii: interaction of environmental and social cues. Journal of Mammalogy 67: 551-560
Scott, M.P. 1987. The effect of mating and agonistic experience on adrenal function and mortality of male Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia). Journal of Mammalogy 68: 479-486
Selwood, L. 1982. A review of maturation and fertilization in marsupials with special reference to the dasyurid: Antechinus stuartii. pp. 65-76 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 1 i-vi, 396 pp.
Selwood, L. 1983. Factors influencing pre-natal fertility in the brown marsupial mouse, Antechinus stuartii. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 68: 317-324
Selwood, L. 1985. Synchronization of oestrus, ovulation and birth in female Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Australian Mammalogy 8: 91-96
Selwood, L. & McCallum, F. 1987. Relationship between longevity of spermatozoa after insemination and the percentage of normal embryos in brown marsupial mice (Antechinus stuartii). Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 79: 495-503
Selwood, L. & Young, G.J. 1983. Cleavage in vivo and in culture in the dasyurid marsupial Antechinus stuartii. Journal of Morphology 176: 43-60
Sumner, J. & Dickman, C.R. 1998. Distribution and identity of species in the Antechinus stuartii - A. flavipes group (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 27-41
Taggart, D.A. & Temple-Smith, P.D. 1990. Effects of breeding season and mating on total number and distribution of spermatozoa in the epididymis of the brown marsupial mouse, Antechinus stuartii. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 88: 81-91
Taggart, D.A. & Temple-Smith, P.D. 1991. Transport and storage of spermatozoa in the female reproductive tract of the brown marsupial mouse, Antechinus stuartii (Dasyuridae). Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 93: 97-110
Van Dyck, S. 1982. The relationships of Antechinus stuartii and A. flavipes (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia) with special reference to Queensland. pp. 723-766 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 2 i-iv, 407 pp. (includes ecology)
van Tets, I.G. & Whelan, R.J. 1997. Banksia pollen in the diet of Australian mammals. Ecography 20: 499-505
Vestal, B.M., Lee, A.K. & Saxon, M.J. 1986. Interactions between adult female and juvenile Antechinus stuartii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) at the time of juvenile dispersal. Australian Mammalogy 9: 27-33
Watt, A.M. 1997. Population ecology and reproductive seasonality in three species of Antechinus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in the wet tropics of Queensland. Wildlife Research 24: 531-547
Common Name References
ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Brown Antechinus)
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