Species Antechinus bellus (Thomas, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phascogale bella Thomas, O. 1904. On a collection of mammals made by Mr J.T. Tunney in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory of South Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 11: 222-229 [229].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 4.1.3.102 ♂ skin & skull, South Alligator River, NT.

Generic Combinations

• Antechinus bellus (Thomas, 1904). —
  Tate, G.H.H. 1947. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 56 On the anatomy and classification of the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88: 97-155
  Baverstock, P.R., Archer, M., Adams, M. & Richardson, B.J. 1982. Genetic relationships among 32 species of Australian dasyurid marsupials. pp. 641-650 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 2 i-iv, 407 pp.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

Ecological Descriptors

Insectivorous, low open woodland, low woodland, open forest, predator, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Occasionally within fringes of monsoon forest, scansorial.

General References

Baker, A.M. & Van Dyck, S. 2013. Taxonomy and redescription of the Fawn Antechinus, Antechinus bellus (Thomas) (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Zootaxa 3613(3): 201–228 (fully revised description)

Braithwaite, R.W. 1989. Shelter selection by a small mammal community in the wet-dry tropics of Australia. Australian Mammalogy 12: 55-59

Braithwaite, R.W. & Muller, W.J. 1997. Rainfall, groundwater and refuges: predicting extinctions of Australian tropical mammal species. Australian Journal of Ecology 22: 57-67

Calaby, J.H. 1995. Fawn Antechinus Antechinus bellus. pp. 85-86 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Calaby, J.H. & Keith, K. 1974. Mammals. pp. 179–208 in Frith, H.J. & Calaby, J.H. (eds) Fauna survey of the Port Essington district, Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory of Australia. CSIRO Austustralia Division of Wildlife Research, Technical Papers No. 28. 208 pp. (field notes)

Calaby, J.H. & Taylor, J.M. 1981. Reproduction in two marsupial-mice, Antechinus bellus and Antechinus bilarni (Dasyuridae), of tropical Australia. Journal of Mammalogy 62: 329-341

Friend, G.R. 1985. Ecological studies of a population of Antechinus bellus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in tropical northern Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 12: 151-162

Friend, G.R. & Taylor, J.A. 1985. Habitat preferences of small mammals in tropical open-forest of the Northern Territory. Australian Journal of Ecology 10: 173-185

Woolley, P.A. 1981. Antechinus bellus, another dasyurid marsupial with post mating mortality in males. Journal of Mammalogy 62: 381-382

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Fawn Antechinus)

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