Crest-tailed mulgara
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| Crest-tailed mulgara[1] | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
| Family: | Dasyuridae |
| Genus: | Dasycercus |
| Species: | D. cristicauda |
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| Dasycercus cristicauda (Krefft, 1867) | |
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| Crest-tailed mulgara range | |
The crest-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda), also called the ampurta,[3] is a species of carnivorous marsupial from Australia. Also called the crest-tailed marsupial mouse, this animal slightly resembles a placental rat.
References
- ↑ Woolley, P.A. (2005). "The species of Dasycercus Peters, 1875 (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)" (PDF). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 62 (2): 213–221.
- ↑ Woolley, P. (2008). Dasycercus cristicauda. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 10 October 2008.
- ↑ Chris Pavey, Jeff Cole, John Woinarski (2006). "THREATENED SPECIES OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY CREST-TAILED MULGARA (AMPURTA)" (PDF). Parks and Wildlife Commission, Northern Territory.
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