Subtropical antechinus

The subtropical antechinus, Antechinus subtropicus, is a small carnivorous marsupial in the family Dasyuridae. It was formerly treated as the same species as the brown antechinus, and it is the largest member of the brown antechinus complex, though it is hard to tell apart from its close relatives. Its most useful features are a long, narrow muzzle and a generally mid-brown coat. It feeds mainly on insects and, as in many other members of its family, all the males die from stress-related disease after mating. The species lives from south of Gympie in Queensland to the far northeast of New South Wales in Australia, where it is essentially restricted to subtropical vine forest below 1,000 metres in elevation, with a relict population in Dorrigo National Park.