Antechinus flavipes subsp. flavipes, flavipes

Baker, Andrew M. & Dyck, Steve Van, 2013, Taxonomy and redescription of the Yellow-footed Antechinus, Antechinus flavipes (Waterhouse) (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae), Zootaxa 3649 (1), pp. 1-62 : 20-21

(6) A. flavipes flavipes versus A. godmani

Pelage: A. flavipes flavipes has a grey head that merges to medium orange-yellow tonings on the rump, flanks and tail base, whereas A. godmani is more uniformly brown on the head and back with orange toned cheeks.

External measurements: A. f. flavipes is smaller than A. godmani in absolute measurement (i.e., with no overlap in ranges) for body weight in both males and females. A. f. flavipes is significantly smaller than A. godmani for head-body length, tail-vent length and hind foot length in both sexes. A. f. flavipes is significantly smaller than A. godmani for ear length in males ( Table 2).

Skull: A. f. flavipes differs from A. godmani in absolute measurement (i.e., with no overlap in ranges) for the following skull / dentary characters: in males—smaller Dent, IBW, IOW, NW, PL, TC, I 1 -P 3, I

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and UPL and in females—smaller BL, Dent, IBW, IOW, IPV, PL, TC, UML, I 1 -P 3, LML, I 1 -P 3 and UPL. A. f. flavipes has numerous other dentary features that significantly (p<0.01) differ from A. godmani — 8 variables for males and 7 for females, as shown in Table 2.

Other Comments: A. f. flavipes females have 10–14 pouch nipples, whereas A. godmani females have10 pouch nipples. A. f. flavipes is found in south-eastern Australia, across 4 states: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia whereas A. godmani is restricted to the wet tropics in north-east Queensland. Genetics: uncorrected pairwise range differences at the mitochondrial gene Cytochrome B (CytB) between A. f. flavipes and A. godmani are 14.3–16.1%.