Rory Cooper's false antechinus

Rory Cooper's false antechinus, Pseudantechinus roryi, also called the tan false antechinus or tan pseudantechinus, is a small carnivorous marsupial of Western Australia that lives on rocky outcrops. It was named only recently, and its biology is essentially unstudied; its behaviour is expected to resemble that of the other false antechinuses in its genus. It has been recorded from the Pilbara region eastward into the Great Sandy and Gibson Deserts, and animals on Barrow Island may also belong to it. It is distinguished from the rest of its genus by reddish-brown colouring, where the usual false antechinus is grey-brown. Its standing as a species is contested: a 2017 analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes in a comparison of Pseudantechinus phylogenies found no support for separating it from the previously described Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis, and the name was proposed as a synonym of that species.