From north to south then to east, Gairdner Ranges to Cape Arid National Park, its habitat rarely stretches 100 km (62 mi) inland from the coast.

[citation needed] A population was discovered in December 2003 in South Australia during a Department for Environment and Heritage Biological Survey on Eyre Peninsula[3] in the Hincks and Bascombe Well conservation parks.

[4] Habitat includes heathy forests, woodland, melaleuca swamplands dense mature heathland.

[2] Breeding is done in a nest below ground a few centimetres, with 8 born in August for Boulenger Island and October of other areas.

[2] This dunnart is a nocturnal omnivorous marsupial that eats insects, small mammals, reptiles and amphibians as well as soft fruit.