Species Pseudantechinus ningbing Kitchener, 1988

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• Pseudantechinus ningbing Kitchener, D.J. 1988. A new species of false antechinus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) from the Kimberly, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 14: 61-71 [62].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM M15787 adult ♂ body (wet) & skull, Mitchell Plateau, Kimberly Region, WA [14°53'40;S, 125°45'20'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Nocturnal, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Fisher, A., Woinarski, J.C.Z., Churchill, S., Trainor, C., Griffiths, A.D., Palmer, C. & Cooper, N. 2000. Distribution of the rock-dwelling dasyurids Pseudantechinus bilarni and P. ningbing in the Northern Territory. Northern Territory Naturalist 16: 1-13

Woolley, P.A. 1982. Phallic morphology of the Australian species of Antechinus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae): A new taxonomic tool? pp. 767-781 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 2 i-iv, 407 pp.

Woolley, P.A. 1988. Reproduction in the ningbing antechinus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae): field and laboratory observations. Australian Wildlife Research 15: 149-156

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Ningbing Pseudantechinus)

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