swamp antechinus

English

Noun

swamp antechinus (plural swamp antechinuses)

1. A small shrew-like marsupial, Antechinus minimus, native to Tasmania and small areas of southern mainland Australia.
   • 2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 56:

     Thus the swamp antechinus (Antchinus minimus, ‘smallest hedgehog equivalent’) distributed across Tasmania and coastal Victoria, weighs about 65 grams.