| Long-tailed pygmy possum[1] | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Burramyidae |
| Genus: | Cercartetus |
| Species: | C. caudatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Cercartetus caudatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1877)
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| Long-tailed pygmy possum range | |
The long-tailed pygmy possum (Cercartetus caudatus) is a diprotodont marsupial found in the rainforests of northern Australia and New Guinea. Living at altitudes of above 1,500 m (4,900 ft), it eats insects and nectar, and may eat pollen in place of insects in the wild.
It is known as sumsum in the Kalam language of Papua New Guinea.[3]
- ^ 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. 44. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Aplin, K.; Dickman, C.; Salas, L.; Burnett, S.; Winter, J. (2016). "Cercartetus caudatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T4192A21963339. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T4192A21963339.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Pawley, Andrew and Ralph Bulmer. 2011. A Dictionary of Kalam with Ethnographic Notes. Canberra. Pacific Linguistics.