After Archer, 1982, 1984, and Wroe, 1999, with Recent species from Nowak, 1991 and Brands, 1989-2005
Alternative phylogeny (molecular) after Krajewski, Wroe & Westerman, 2000
<==o Phascogalinae Bonaparte, 1850 |--o Phascogale Temminck, 1827 [Phascologale Lenz, 1831; Ascogale Gloger, 1841; Phascogalea Müller & Schlegel, 1842; Tapoa Lesson, 1842; Phascoloictis Matschie, 1916] (brush-tailed marsupial “mice”, tuans) | |-- P. tapoatafa (F. Meyer, 1793) (brush-tailed phascogale, tuan, common wambenger) | `-- P. calura Gould, 1844 (red-tailed phascogale;red-tailed wambenger; punahäntäpussikärppä) `--o Antechinus MacLeay, 1841 [Phascogale] (pussikärpät)? |-- A. melanurus (Thomas, 1899) (black-tailed antechinus) |-- A. naso (Jentink, 1911) (long-nosed antechinus) |-- A. wilhelmina Tate, 1947 (lesser antechinus) |-- A. puteus van Dyck, 1982 |--o A. godmani (Thomas, 1923) (atherton antechinus) | |-- A. g. godmani | `-- A. g. rubeculus van Dyck, 1982 |--o A. stuartii Macleay, 1841 (brown antechinus; ruskopussikärppä) | |-- A. s. adustus | `-- A. s. stuartii Macleay, 1841 |--o A. flavipes (Waterhouse, 1837 [1838]) (non 1831?) (yellow-footed antechinus) | |-- A. f. flavipes | `-- A. f. rufogaster |-- A. leo van Dyck, 1980 (cinnamon antechinus) |-- A. bellus (Thomas, 1904) (fawn antechinus) |-- A. swainsonii (Waterhouse, 1840) (dusky antechinus; mustapussikärppä) `--o A. minimus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803) (swamp antechinus) |-- A. m. minimus `-- A. m. maritimus
Reference(s):
- Brands, S. J. (comp.), 1989-2005: Systema Naturae 2000.
–iNet: Systema Naturae 2000: http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl [visited: 2006-03-08] - Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698. - Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648.
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698. - Krajewski, C., Wroe, S. & Westerman, M., 2000: Molecular evidence for the pattern and timing of cladogenesis in dasyrid marsupials.
–Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: vol. 130, #3?, pp. 375-404. - McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
–Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631 - Nowak, R. M., 1991: Walker's Mammals of the World; Part 1.
–The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1991, xlviii-642-lxiii - Nowak, R. M., 1991: Walker's mammals of the World; Part 2.
–The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1991, xii-643-1629 - Wroe, S., 1999: The geologically oldest dasyurid, from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-west Queensland.
–Palaeontology: Vol. 42, #3, pp. 501-527
Special thanks to:
Jos H. M. Dols, for gathering additional information and missing species.