Ningbing false antechinus

Pseudantechinus ningbing bag is a species of the genus fat tail bag mice.

This bag is similar to mouse Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis, but the females have four teats and not six as P. macdonnellensis. In addition, the tail of this kind is longer, at its base grow long hair and the rest is a bit flaky.

The species lives in the northeastern Western Australia in the Kimberley region, it inhabits rocky tracts of land in a wide range of vegetation types.

About the behavior of Pseudantechinus ningbing is little known. Mating takes place in June, the gestation period is 45 to 52 days comparatively long. Young are born in July and August and weaned during the months of October to November.

The species is listed by IUCN as uncritical ( least concern ), but what is deprecated.

This species was by biologist Harry Butler in Ningbing, an abandoned station in the Kimberley region, discovered. Long it was considered conspecific with Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis. DJ Kitchener described it in 1988 as an independent Art The specific epithet refers to the type locality ningbing.

Swell

• Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, DE, and Reeder, DM ( eds ): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4 27.
• Menkhorst, Peter ( 2001). A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia. Oxford University Press, 62
• Woolley, P. A. (1995), " Ningbing Pseudantechinus ", in Strahan, Ronald, The Mammals of Australia, Reed Books, pp. 79-80
• Pseudantechinus ningbing in the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN 2006 Posted by: . Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group, 2000 Retrieved on 4 June 2008.

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