| Tasmanian 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. lepidus
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| Binomial name | |
| Cercartetus lepidus (Thomas, 1888)
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| Tasmanian pygmy possum range | |
The Tasmanian pygmy possum (Cercartetus lepidus), also known as the little pygmy possum or tiny pygmy possum, is the world's smallest possum. It was first described by Oldfield Thomas in 1888, after he identified that a museum specimen labelled as an eastern pygmy possum in fact represented a species then unknown to science. The holotype resides in the Natural History Museum in London.[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. 45. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Menkhorst, P. (2016). "Cercartetus lepidus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T40577A21963428. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T40577A21963428.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Harris, J.M. (2009). "Cercartetus lepidus (Diprotodontia: Burramyidae)". Mammalian Species. 842: 1–8. doi:10.1644/842.1.