#false antechinus

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The Ningbing false antechinus (Pseudantechinus ningbing) is a species of false antechinus, a genus of small marsupials related to quolls and tasmanian devils. It is distinguished from other false antechinuses by the females having 4 nipples instead of the typical 6. (x, x)

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Sandstone dibbler (Pseudantechinus bilarni) Also known as: Northern dibbler, sandstone false antechinus, sandstone pseudantechinus

The sandstone false antechinus was discovered in 1948 and described in 1954, when it was given the species name bilarni, which reflects the Aboriginal pronunciation of Bill Harney, an Australian writer and naturalist who accompanied the expedition that originally found it. It is an insectivorous species that, like many other dasyurids, so exhausts itself in the breeding season that most of the males die, although unlike some other species, about 25% of both sexes survive to a second year.

Classification Animalia - Chordata - Mammalia - Metatheria - Marsupialia - Australidelphia - Dasyuromorphia - Dasyuridae - Dasyurinae - Dasyurini - Pseudantechinus - P. bilarni

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