Antechinus stuartii Macleay 1841

Antechinus stuartii Macleay 1841, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 8: 242.

Type Locality: Australia, New South Wales, Manly (Spring Cove, Sydney Harbour); neotype from Waterfall, Royal National Park.

Vernacular Names: Brown Antechinus.

Synonyms: Antechinus adusta (Thomas 1923); Antechinus burrelli (Le Souef and Burrel 1926); Antechinus unicolor Gould 1854 .

Distribution: SE Queensland, E New South Wales south to Kioloa (35°32'S, 150°23'E). Bioclimatic modeling predicts an almost entirely coastal distribution, north to about 26°S (Sumner and Dickman, 1998).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Dickman et al. (1988) showed that what had been thought to be the single species A. stuartii in E New South Wales is actually divided into a northern and a southern species: A. stuartii and what is now (Dickman et al., 1998) named A. agilis; the two have been found together at Kioloa, in S New South Wales.