Chlidonias

Yellow-footed Antechinus (Antechinus flavipes rubeculus)

Lake Eacham, Queensland
This is a pretty rubbish photo (I would have cropped it, except it isn't in good focus!), but I uploaded it to include in the thread here - The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Monotremes and Marsupials - to illustrate the difference between this north Queensland subspecies and the southern subspecies flavipes which is depicted in an infinitely-better photo by Hix.
 
How many subspecies are there? I've seen them in two places and the ones at Dryandra didn't even have yellow feet...
 
There are three subspecies - that link above should take you directly to the post about Antechinus.

The three subspecies are all quite different - potentially not even all the same species. The ones in WA are A. f. leucogaster. The name "yellow-footed" really only applies to A. f. flavipes of the eastern states. In the thread the photo by Hix is of flavipes and the yellow feet are obvious.
 

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