The Mardo or antechinus with yellow legs whose scientific name is Antechinus flavipes is a Espèce of small carnivorous Marsupial alive in Australia.
C' is most current of the Antechinus and like the other species of the kind, the male dies after the coupling.

Subspecies

One knows three pennies species of them.

Distribution and habitat

One finds it since the area of the Mont Lofty in Australia Méridionale to the surroundings of Eungella to the Queensland, except for the majority of the coastal areas of News-Wales-of-South and the Victoria. One finds subspecies isolated in the North-East from the Queensland and south-west from the Australia Méridionale.

It has a varied habitat but mainly the semi-arid zones of undergrowth and the sclerophyllous forests. In north, he lives the moors, the marshes and wood; in the far North he lives in the tropical forests .

Reproduction

The period of the loves is during the two last weeks of August for the animals at the south until October for those of the south of the Queensland; in June - July for those in the north of Queensland