Antechinus
Creators: name: Baker, Andrew M
name: Mutton, Thomas Y
name: Dyck, Steve Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuridae
Antechinus

description: Key to the genus Antechinus
NB. A number of antechinus species have discrete geographic ranges and the key makes use of this where possible to aid identification.
1a Found in NT................................................................................... A. bellus
1b Not found in NT...................................................................................... 2
2a Found in south-west WA.............................................................. A. flavipes leucogaster
2b Not found in WA..................................................................................... 3
3a Found in north-east Qld or Cape York Peninsula............................................................. 4
3b Not found in north-east Qld or Cape York Peninsula.......................................................... 7
4a BL <27.9mm; dent <22.0mm; LML <7.30mm ...................................................... A. adustus
4b BL> 27.9mm; dent> 22.0mm; LML> 7.30mm ............................................................ 5
5a TC <2.90mm; UPL <3.90mm; I1 -P3 <6.6mm; found in wet tropics of north-east Qld, south of Princess Charlotte Bay.......................................................................................... A. flavipes rubeculus
5b TC usually> 2.90mm, but if smaller then only found north of Princess Charlotte Bay on Cape York Peninsula............ 6
6a NW> 2.8mm; IOW <7.4mm; UPL <4.00mm, found only north of Princess Charlotte Bay on Cape York Peninsula... A. leo
6b NW <2.8mm; IOW> 7.4mm; UPL> 3.90mm, found only south of Princess Charlotte Bay in the wet tropics of north-east Qld............................................................................................ A. godmani
7a Has all the following features: R-LC1 5.40mm or less, APV 4.00mm or more, and reduced stylar cusp B on M2 and M3................................................................................................ A. swainsonii
7b Without the combination of all features above............................................................... 8
8a Has all the following features: IOW 6.70mm or more, compressed spadelike I1, lack of slight space between I1 and I2; found in damp, lowland, coastal habitat in Tasmania, southern Victoria and south-east SA only....................... A. minimus
8b Without the combination of all features above............................................................... 9
9a Has all the following features: IPV <3.80mm (mean 2.60mm and usually less than 3.00mm), PPV> 5.00mm, well developed entoconids on M3, found in the altitudinal rainforest of south-east Qld and north-east NSW only............. A. subtropicus
9b Without the combination of all features above.............................................................. 10
10a Has all the following features: R-LC1> 4.60mm, M2W> 2.42mm (usually more than 2.52mm), UML> 6.5mm, LML> 7.15mm, occurs in a range of habitats throughout south-eastern / eastern Australia, including drier areas west of the Great Dividing Range........................................................................ A. flavipes flavipes
10b Without the combination of all features above.............................................................. 11
11a R-LC1> 4.65mm, BuL> 3.95mm; found in Qld, usually from near the Qld/NSW border to Mackay (mid-east Qld).................................................................................................... A. mysticus
11b R-LC1 <5.60mm, BuL <4.60mm; found mostly in south-east SA, Victoria or NSW, known from Qld only in scattered loca- tions near the south-east Qld/NSW border................................................................. 12
12a R-LC1 <4.95mm, PPV <5.1mm; found at the latitude of Sydney in NSW or further south, extending into Victoria and south- east SA........................................................................................ A. agilis
12b R-LC1> 4.40mm; PPV> 4.40mm; found only in eastern NSW at the latitude of Sydney or further north, extending into far south-east Qld................................................................................. A. stuartii
description: Published as part of Baker, Andrew M, Mutton, Thomas Y & Dyck, Steve Van, 2012, A new dasyurid marsupial from eastern Queensland, Australia: the Buff-footed Antechinus, Antechinus mysticus sp. nov. (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae), pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 3515 on page 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.210344