Phascogale
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| Image:Tasa-drawing.jpg Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa)
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| Didelphis penicillata Shaw, 1800 (= Vivera tapoatafa, F. Meyer, 1793 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Phascogales (members of the eponymous genus Phascogale), also known as 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.
[edit] References
- Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 31-32. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
