| Brush-tailed phascogale[1] | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
| Family: | Dasyuridae |
| Genus: | Phascogale |
| Species: | P. tapoatafa
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| Binomial name | |
| Phascogale tapoatafa (Meyer, 1793)
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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,[3] the common wambenger, the black-tailed mousesack[4] 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.
- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 32. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Burbidge, A.A.; Woinarski, J. (2020). "Phascogale tapoatafa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T16890A166495589. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T16890A166495589.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ Chambers English Dictionary.
- ^ A Hollow Victory – The Morabool News