Antechinus Macleay 1841 Antechinus Macleay 1841, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 8: 242. Type Species: Antechinus stuartii Macleay 1841 Species and subspecies: 10 species with 2 subspecies: Species Antechinus adustus Thomas 1923 Species Antechinus agilis Dickman, Parnaby, Crowther and King 1998 Species Antechinus bellus Thomas 1904 Species Antechinus flavipes (Waterhouse 1837) Subspecies Antechinus flavipes subsp. flavipes Waterhouse 1837 Subspecies Antechinus flavipes subsp. rubeculus Van Dyck 1982 Species Antechinus godmani Thomas 1923 Species Antechinus leo Van Dyck 1980 Species Antechinus minimus (E. Geoffroy 1803) Species Antechinus stuartii Macleay 1841 Species Antechinus subtropicus Van Dyck and Crowther 2000 Species Antechinus swainsonii (Waterhouse 1840) Discussion: For the exclusion of Parantechinus and Pseudantechinus see Haltenorth (1958:18) and Ride (1964 a); and of Dasykaluta see Archer (1982:434). Formerly included habbema, melanura, naso, and wilhelmina, which were transferred to Murexia by Armstrong et al. (1998), and have been transferred to a series of new genera (Micromurexia, Murexechinus, and Phascomurexia) by Van Dyck (2002).

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Dasyuromorphia, pp. 22-37 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519