Alexandria false antechinus

Pseudantechinus mimulus is a species of the genus of the fat tail bag mice is endemic to Australia.

Description

The coat color of Pseudantechinus mimulus is yellow-brown on the back and gray-white on the belly. Of the other fat tail bag mice, it differs by the small size.

About the behavior of the species is not known.

Habitat

The first copy of Pseudantechinus mimulus was discovered in 1905 in the Northern Territory, since there was, despite intensive search no further finds more on the mainland. Based on current knowledge, the species lives only on three small islands in the Sir Edward Pellew - group in the northeast of the Northern Territory in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Their habitat are covered with spinifex rock areas.

Threat

Due to the small distribution area, the type of the IUCN is listed as threatened ( vulnerable ), this statement is deprecated. On the islands is likely to be relatively common type.

Taxonomy

Only since 1991, this fat tail bag mouse definitely is considered a unique Art After its first description in 1906, it was long time considered as a synonym of Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis.

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, 60
• Johnson, K. A. & Langford, D. G. (1995), " Carpentarian Pseudantechinus ", in Strahan, Ronald, The Mammals of Australia, Reed Books, pp. 77-78
• Pseudantechinus mimulus in the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN 2006 Posted by: . Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group, 2000 Retrieved on 4 June 2008.

• Dasyuridae
• Dasyuridae