Unplaced to Unplaced Synonym(s)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Antechinus minutissimus Gould, J. 1852. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 4. [the date 1849 printed on the title page of Sturt, op. cit. is not the publication date of that work, see Mahoney, J.A. 1975. The identity and status of Thomas' 'lectotype' of Leporillus apicalis (Gould, 1853) [Rodentia: Muridae]. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 99: 101–104 [104]] [text to 4th pl. of Pt 4] [= text to Vol. 1 pl. 45].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 53.10.22.20 ♂ skin, Cressbrook, near Moreton Bay (as Cressbrook, Moreton Bay), QLD; whereabouts unknown (others not found in BMNH or LIVCM), Cressbrook, near Moreton Bay (as Cressbrook, Moreton Bay), QLD; BMNH 54.10.21.5 skull, Cressbrook, near Moreton Bay (as Cressbrook, Moreton Bay), QLD.

  Type locality references:

  Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls. [3 Nov. 1888] [293].

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, insectivorous, low open woodland, nocturnal, open forest, predator, sedgeland, terrestrial, tussock grassland, woodland.

History of changes