Phascogale

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? Phascogale
Image:Tasa-drawing.jpg Brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Subclass: Marsupialia Order: Dasyuromorphia Family: Dasyuridae Genus: Phascogale Temminck, 1827
Species
Brush-tailed Phascogale, Phascogale tapoatafa Red-tailed Phascogale, Phascogale calura

Phascogales or Wambengers are carnivorous Australian marsupials of the family Dasyuridae. There are two species; the Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa) and the Red-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale calura). As with a number of dasyurid species, the males live for only one year, dying after a period of frenzied mating.

External Links

On the Brush-tailed phascogale:

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On the Red-tailed phascogale:

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On a possible new species, the so-called "Tuft-tailed phascogale."

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