#0513 · 🦊 mammals
Yellow-footed Antechinus
🇳🇱 Geelvoetbuidelmuis ·Antechinus flavipes
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Kent Warner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Patrick_K59 · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Jan Tilden · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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- 6. © Scott W. Gavins · CC BY 4.0
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- 8. © Scott W. Gavins · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Scott W. Gavins · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Scott W. Gavins · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The yellow-footed antechinus ( Antechinus flavipes ), also known as the mardo , is a shrew-like marsupial found in Australia. One notable feature of the species is its sexual behavior. The male yellow-footed antechinus engages in such frenzied mating that its immune system becomes compromised, resulting in stress related death before it is one year old.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 1,737 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by George Robert Waterhouse in 1838 (188 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow-footed Antechinus
- Nederlands
- Geelvoetbuidelmuis
- scientific name
- Antechinus flavipes
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Dasyuromorphia
- family
- Dasyuridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 1,737
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1838 by George Robert Waterhouse
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Dasyuridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 40187, Wikidata Q194981, GBIF 2435366, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.