[3] A species first named by Gerard Krefft in 1872, using a specimen obtained at Albany by the local collector George Maxwell.

[4] The author assigned the name Podabrus albocaudatus with a description that was published in an Eastern States newspaper, the Sydney Mail.

[5] The same specimen, the holotype of the species, was described by Ellis Troughton in 1932 without reference to Krefft's earlier description.

The upperparts of the pelage are uniform in colour, a lighter shade of fawn that merges with the white ventral side.

Habitat consists of coastal heath and sparse to dense shrublands sometimes with mallee eucalypt.