Species Parantechinus apicalis (J.E. Gray, 1842)

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• Phascogale apicalis Gray, J.E. 1842. A new species of tapering-tailed Phascogale in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 518.

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 42.8.18.3 & 44.6.15.8 ♀ skin (42.8.18.3) & skull (44.6.15.8), Australia (as 'doubtless from Australasia').

 

Generic Combinations

• Parantechinus apicalis (J.E. Gray, 1842). —
  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
• Antechinus apicalis (J.E. Gray, 1842).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Present on Boullanger and Whitlock Islands, formerly said to occur in SA, old specimens localised to Rockhampton, QLD.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, litter, open heath, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Scansorial.

 

General References

Archer, M. 1979. The status of Australian dasyurids, thylacinids and myrmecobiids. pp. 29-43 in Tyler, M.J. (ed.). The Status of Endangered Australasian Wildlife. Adelaide : Royal Zoological Society of South Australia.

Baynes, A. 1982. Dasyurids (Marsupialia) in late Quaternary communities in Southwestern Australia. pp. 503-510 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 2 i-iv, 407 pp.

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

Lee, A.K., Woolley, P. & Braithwaite, R.W. 1982. Life history strategies of dasyurid marsupials. pp. 1-11 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 1 i-vi, 396 pp.

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp.

Miller, S., Bencini, R., Mills, H. & Moro, D. 2003. Food availability for the dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis) on Boullanger and Whitlock Islands, Western Australia. Wildlife Research 30: 649-654

Muir, L.R. 1985. The dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis: Dasyuridae) found in Fitzgerald River National Park, Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 16: 48-51

Woolley, P. 1971. Observations on the reproductive biology of the dibbler, Antechinus apicalis (Marsupialia; Dasyuridae). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 54: 99-102

Woolley, P. 1977. In search of the Dibbler, Antechinus apicalis (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 59: 111-117

Woolley, P.A. 1991. Reproductive pattern of captive Boullanger Island dibblers, Parantechinus apicalis (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Wildlife Research 18: 157-163

Woolley, P.A. 1995. Southern Dibbler Parantechinus apicalis. pp. 72-73 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

 

Common Name References

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2010		15-Oct-2010	MOVED
07-Feb-2024		15-Oct-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)