Yellow-Footed Antechinus

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The Yellow-Footed Antechinus (Antechinus flavipes), is also known as the Mardo. Described as a shrew-like marsupial, the specific epithet flavipes means “yellow-footed.”

The Yellow-Footed Antechinus is the most widespread of all the Antechinus genus in Australia. They are found in a range of habitats from tropical vine-forests, swamps and dry mulga country.

The male Yellow-Footed Antechinus are know to engage in such frenzied mating that its immune system becomes compromised, resulting in stress–related death before it reached one year old.

Currently there are three recognised subspecies of the Yellow-Footed Antechinus, including Antechinus flavipes flavipes (found in the south-eastern QLD, NSW, VIC and SA), Antechinus flavipes leucogaster (found in southwestern WA), and Antechinus flavipes rubeculus (found in northeastern QLD).

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Informal: Gnathostomata
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Marsupialia
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Superfamily: Dasyuroidea
Family: Dasyuridae
Subfamily: Phascogalinae
Genus: Antechinus
Species: Antechinus flavipes
Subspecies:
- Antechinus flavipes flavipes (Waterhouse, 1838)
- Antechinus flavipes leucogaster (Gray, 1841)
- Antechinus flavipes rubeculus Van Dyck, 1982

Footnote & References

Yellow-Footed Antechinus © Mal Whitehead, member of Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, https://www.facebook.com/groups/191099460990243/
Antechinus flavipes (Waterhouse, 1838), Yellow-Footed Antechinus, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Antechinus flavipes

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