Antechinus arktos

A. M. Baker, T. Y. Mutton, Hines, & Van Dyck, 2014

Black-tailed Antechinus

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Marsupialia
Superorder : Australidelphia
Order : Dasyuromorphia
Family : Dasyuridae
Subfamily : Phascogalinae
Genus : Antechinus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Baker, A.M., Mutton, T.Y., Hines, H.B. and Van Dyck, S. 2014-02-17. The black-tailed antechinus, _Antechinus arktos_ sp. nov.: a new species of carnivorous marsupial from montane regions of the Tweed Volcano caldera, eastern Australia. Zootaxa 3765(2):101-133.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3765.2.1

Original name as described

Antechinus arktos

Type material

QM JM20009

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Best of All Lookouts, Mount Mumdjin, Springbrook National Park, south-east Queensland, Australia.

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Australia

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Baker, A. M., Mutton, T. Y., Hines, H. B., & Van Dyck, S. (2014). The black-tailed antechinus, Antechinus arktos sp. nov.: a new species of carnivorous marsupial from montane regions of the Tweed Volcano caldera, eastern Australia. Zootaxa, 3765(2), 101-133.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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