The silver-headed antechinus (''Antechinus argentus'') is a species of

dasyurid The Dasyuridae are a family of marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea, including 71 extant species divided into 17 genera. Many are small and mouse-like or shrew-like, giving some of them the name marsupial mice or marsupial shrews, but th ...

marsupial Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a po ...

of the genus

Antechinus ''Antechinus'' (// ('ant-echinus')) is a genus of small dasyurid marsupial endemic to Australia. They resemble mice with the bristly fur of shrews. Names They are also sometimes called 'broad-footed marsupial mice', 'pouched mice', or 'Antech ...

. Described in 2013, the species is known only from so far is known to occur in just three locations: Blackdown Tableland National Park,

Kroombit Tops National Park Kroombit Tops is a national park in Central Queensland, Australia. It is between Monto and Calliope. It is two parts. The largest part is within the localities of Tablelands, Valentine Plains, Cania and Boyne Valley, while the smaller part is ...

and

Bulburin National Park Bulburin National Park is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 120 km south of Gladstone and 40 km south-west of Miriam Vale. Here is the largest remnant of the subtropical rainforest in central Queensland. Diversity of wildli ...

in central Queensland. It is one of the most recently described Australian

References

Mammals described in 2013 Marsupials of Australia Central Queensland Dasyuromorphs {{Queensland-stub