Brush-tailed Phascogale
Phascogale tapoatafa
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 873
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
The brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), also known by its Australian native name tuan, the common wambenger, the black-tailed mousesack or the black-tailed phascogale, is a rat-sized arboreal carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, characterized by a tuft of black silky hairs on the terminal portion of its tail. Males of this species do not live past the age of one, as they die after reproducing.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Brush-tailed phascogale”.