Brush-tailed phascogale
| Brush-tailed phascogale | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
| Family: | Dasyuridae |
| Genus: | Phascogale |
| Species: | P. tapoatafa |
| Binomial name | |
| Phascogale tapoatafa (Meyer, 1793) | |
| Subspecies | |
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P. tapoatafa tapoatafa
P. tapoatafa wambenger
P. tapoatafa kimberleyensis
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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.