Subspecies Myrmecobius fasciatus rufus Finlayson, 1933

• Myrmecobius fasciatus rufus Finlayson, H.H. 1933. On the eremian representative of Myrmecobius fasciatus (Waterhouse). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 203-205 [203] [junior homonym of Myrmecobius rufus Jones, 1923].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SAMA M3061 ♀ skin & skull, mulga sand dunes S & SW of the Everard Ranges, SA; SAMA M3759 ♀ spirit specimen, mulga sand dunes S & SW of the Everard Ranges, SA
  Comment: Aitken, P.F. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum. V. Mammals. Rec. S. Aust. Mus. 17: 197–202 [197] reports the locality of M3061 as south of the Musgrave and north of the Everard Ranges, SA, and that of M3759 as Oolarinna, north [sic] of the Everard Ranges, SA.

  Type locality references:

  Aitken, P.F. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum. V. Mammals. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 17: 197-202.
• Myrmecobius rufus Jones, F.W. 1923. The Mammals of South Australia. Containing the monotremes and the carnivorous marsupials. (The Ornithodelphia and the didactylous Didelphia). Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 131 pp. [123].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 49.170 ♂ skin, SA.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, SA, WA: Gibson Desert (GD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, burrower, diurnal, hummock grassland, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, open forest, open scrub, predator, tall shrubland.

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