Crest-tailed Mulgara

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Crest-tailed Mulgara[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Dasyuridae
Subfamily: Dasyurinae
Tribe: Dasyurini
Genus: Dasycercus
Species: D. cristicauda
Binomial name
Dasycercus cristicauda
(Krefft, 1867)

The Crest-tailed Mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda) is a species of carnivorous marsupial from Australia. Also called the Crest-tailed Marsupial Mouse, this animal slightly resembles a placental rat.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Woolley, P.A. (2005). "The species of Dasycercus Peters, 1875 (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)" (PDF). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 62 (2): 213–221. 
  2. ^ Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group (1996). Dasycercus cristicauda. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 26 September 2007.
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