Crest-tailed mulgara
| Crest-tailed mulgara | |
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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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| Binomial name | |
| Dasycercus cristicauda (Krefft, 1867)
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The crest-tailed mulgara (D. cristicauda) is a small Australian carnivorous marsupial. It was previously recognised as a senior synonym of the ampurta (D. hillieri), but is now believed to be a separate extinct taxon.[1] The same investigation also described the southern mulgara (D. archeri), and the northern mulgara (D. wolleyae), which were split from D. cristicauda. As a result of the taxonomic changes to this taxon, it is believed that D. cristicauda is now only known from subfossil specimens and the single live caught holotype specimen.[1]
Kreft, 1867, first described the species as 'Chaetocercus cristicauda' in 1877 based on a single specimen collected from southern Australia.[2]
References
- ^ a b Newman-Martin, Jake; Travouillon, Kenny J.; Warburton, Natalie; Barham, Milo; Blyth, Alison J. (2023-10-02). "Taxonomic review of the genus Dasycercus (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae) using modern and subfossil material; and the description of three new species". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 47 (4): 624–661. doi:10.1080/03115518.2023.2262083. ISSN 0311-5518.
- ^ Woolley, P.A. (2005). The species of Dasycercus Peters, 1875 (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 62(2), 213–221.
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